Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away. Charles Jencks attitudebeautyconfidence Change image and share on social
If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen. Charles Jencks kitchenkitsch Change image and share on social
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. Charles Jencks bottomcentrecone share on social
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. Charles Jencks appliquedegeneratekitsch Change image and share on social
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite. Charles Jencks architectureblockcoup share on social
You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy. Charles Jencks exercisefeedbackimmune share on social
Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe? Charles Jencks dialogueuniverse Change image and share on social
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant. Charles Jencks absoluteaffluencedominant Change image and share on social
A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases. Charles Jencks casecuredisease share on social
