Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.