Pleasing oneself, when it is truly done, leads to the most sublime, the most profound, the most truly spiritual art.

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• What pleasing yourself truly IS, is the process in which we create living structure.claim0.841
  The culminating identity claim: the act of true self-pleasing and the creation of living structure are one and the same process.
• Making something that truly pleases requires hundreds of subtle judgments, each extracting what pleases more within the whole.claim0.821
  From the West Dean experience: the north wall alone required approximately 500 such judgments.
• To please yourself, you may have to make a thing in which God is visible.claim0.818
  The troubling consequence of true self-pleasing: it produces beauty so deep it reveals the divine, which makes modern people uncomfortable.
• Pleasing yourself and doing what is right are one and the same.claim0.813
  The most radical claim of the chapter: the subjective and the ethical are identical at the deepest level.
• Truly pleasing ourselves is not shameful. It is transcendent.claim0.812
  The moral revaluation: what society treats as self-indulgence is actually the path to transcendence.
• It is only when you finally are personal, when you really put your humanness into the things you make, that you genuinely reach the wholeness.claim0.810
• Simplicity is a spiritually achieved state of art.claim0.807
  Claims the spiritual dimension of true simplicity.
• The life which seems best in our world comes from efforts that are uncensored, natural and straightforward, from impulses close to our emotions and joy.claim0.806
  Alexander's opening assertion about the character of true modern life.