andre bloc, sculpture- habitacle, n 2

**

“ Such being the relation between them, the difference in the nature of the ideas bodied forth in music and in architecture becomes apparent. Music is interior, abstract, subjective, speaking directly to the soul in a simple and universal language whose meaning is made personal and particular in the breast of each listener: “ Music alone of all the arts,” says Balzac, “ has power to make us live within ourselves.” A work of architecture is the exact opposite of this: existing principally and primarily for the uses of the body, it is like the body a concrete organism, attaining to esthetic expression only in the reconciliation and fulfillment of many conflicting practical requirements. Music is pure beauty, the voice of the unfettered and perpetually evanishing soul of things; architecture is that soul imprisoned in a form, become a subject to the law of causality, beaten upon by the elements, at war with gravity, the slave of man. One is the Ariel of the arts; the other, Caliban”

from The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essay son Theosophy and Architecture, Claude Bragdon