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

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

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure.

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

The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge..

It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals, in their….

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual deser….

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re….

Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it. Variations in….

There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it: to….

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 re….

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 clamorou….

Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves..

Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it..

Nothing is more useful than the useless..

The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, ….

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

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

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others..

Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is..

We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education….