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March 17, 1991
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I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.