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ARCHITECTURE, PURE CREATION OF THE MIND
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For two thousand years, those who have seen the Parthenon have felt that here was a decisive moment in Architecture.
We are at a decisive moment. At the present time when the arts are feeling their way and when painting, for instance, is
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THE PARTHENON
The audacity of the square mouldings; austerity and nobility.
finding little by little the formulas of a healthy mode of expression and so jars violently on the spectator, the Parthenon gives us sure truths and emotion of a superior, mathematical order. Art is poetry: the emotion of the senses, the joy of the mind as it measures and appreciates, the recognition of an axial principle which touches the depth of our being. Art is this
