When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.

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.

In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.