It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.
For me, every day is a new thing.
A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.
We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me."
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.