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

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a form of intellectual control, which presents us with the image of unrealities in order that we should understand and feel distanced from them. In imagination we dominate; in fantasy, we are dominated.

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.

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

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.