When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end with aesthetic overload. The clamorous masterpieces, jostling for attention side by side, would lose their distinctiveness, and the beauty of each of them would be at war with the beauty of the rest.

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.

In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.