But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.