Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

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.

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

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

The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

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.