Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end with aesthetic overload. The clamorous masterpieces, jostling for attention side by side, would lose their distinctiveness, and the beauty of each of them would be at war with the beauty of the rest.

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification