The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

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

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.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

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

When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.