A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

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

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.

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.

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

There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it: to be original, an artist must also belong to the tradition from which he departs. To put it another way, he must violate the expectations of his audience, but he must also, in countless ways, uphold and endorse them.