Charles Rennie Mackintosh quotes

“Art is the flower... life the green leaf.”
-- Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Source : Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Pamela Robertson (1990). “Charles Rennie Mackintosh: the architectural papers”, White Cockade Pub

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“There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist”
-- Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Source : William Buchanan, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (2004). “Mackintosh's Masterwork: The Glasgow School of Art”, p.20, Rutgers University Press

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“Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning”
-- Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”

“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”

“Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.”

“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”

“A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.”

“Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.”

“My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.”

“Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.”

“O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.”

Source : 'Ode upon Eckington Bridge'