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.

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

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

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.