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This sadness of tears, when I reach it, is also joy. ... What makes it sad is that it comes closest, in the physical concrete beams and columns and walls, as close as possible, to the fact of my existence on this earth.

The ultimate sadness is not miserable but a profound acknowledgment of existence, which is both sad and joyful.

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The so-definite fact of this sadness which enters things, and the fact that through this sadness we—all of us, I, you, and the person I have never known—all experience life in those things—it is hard to believe that it is only a trick or a mental state.
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The intersubjective reality of the sadness effect argues against its being merely psychological; it points to an objective quality.

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What I aim for is, most concretely, sadness. I try to make the volume of the building so that it carries in it all feeling. To reach this feeling, I try to make the building so that it carries my eternal sadness. It comes, as nearly as I can in a building, to the point of tears.claim0.831
The explicit artistic goal: to shape space so that it evokes tears, the most direct route to the I.
But this lake, even though it allows happiness to exist, is much closer to tears. If you have tears, you can feel them at the sight of the lake, or of the wind ruffles on the surface of the water. Its very existence in the school even allows your tears.claim0.824
The physical environment of the lake at Eishin campus creates a space where sadness can surface, unlike a typical asphalt playground.
The quality of 'tears,' the sadness that necessarily characterizes all living art, is inherent in the geometry, it is not only an emotion, but is a character of the geometry itself.claim0.820
Sadness is not subjective feeling alone but a structural property of the geometry.
The making of sadness must come through a process where land, details, rooms form an indivisible whole, always trying to tie it together, to unify it, to make it disappear.claim0.804
The artistic process of achieving sadness is a unifying one that ultimately makes the parts disappear into a whole.
Unity ties everything together—including joy, happiness and laughter, but also including loss, death, and betrayal.claim0.772
Core assertion that true unity necessarily encompasses all of life's experiences, thus contains inherent sadness.
How unfortunate that we should be forced to conclude that in its own sad reality nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colorless; merely the hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly ...quote0.767
Whitehead's lament on the bleakness of the mechanistic view of nature, capturing the spiritual cost.
Am I creating a thing which generates in me, the sadness of human life?question0.766
While making, we carry a dimly held vision of emotional substance as we move forward through concrete acts.claim0.763