Aesthetic Resistance Quotes

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

The truest protest is beauty.

I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing.

Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.