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 ...

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• It is the nature of matter itself which is at stake; our despair follows from the belief that matter is machinelike.claim0.791
  The root problem is the conception of matter; architecture and meaning depend on transforming this conception.
• Color is an essential feature of reality; the unity of things (like a forest) is colored, not just structural.claim0.771
• 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.claim0.768
  The intersubjective reality of the sadness effect argues against its being merely psychological; it points to an objective quality.
• 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.claim0.767
  Sadness is not subjective feeling alone but a structural property of the geometry.
• 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.claim0.767
  The ultimate sadness is not miserable but a profound acknowledgment of existence, which is both sad and joyful.
• The beautiful balance of endless repetition and endless variation, typical in almost all of nature, and typical of the greatest of the ancient artefacts, may be coming within our grasp once again.quote0.767
  Expresses the aspiration of the new production method to recover a natural quality of order.
• Nature is all that which follows from an unbroken sequence of unfoldings, each unfolding from the wholeness that preceded it.claim0.766
• 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.claim0.765
  The artistic process of achieving sadness is a unifying one that ultimately makes the parts disappear into a whole.