Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

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

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

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.

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