Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

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

State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people’s belief that they have failed.

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.