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

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.