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

In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new beliefs of a society based on equality and inclusion, and are told that the judgment of other lifestyles is a crime. ... The "non-judgmental" attitude towards other cultures goes hand-in-hand with a fierce denunciation of the culture that might have been one's own

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

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

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.

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

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.