Charles Mackintosh Quotes

You must be Independent, Independent, Independent - don't talk so much but do more - go your own way and let your neighbour go his... Shake off all the props - the props tradition and authority give you - and go alone - crawl - stumble - stagger - but go alone.

Without you, everything has a flatness. I feel as if I'm waiting for something all the time.

Why is Jessie J different to the all the other MTV wannabes? What makes Bradley Wiggins stand out from the crowd? How controversial was Charles Rennie Mackintosh actually? What do you think was going through the mind of Rosa Parks when she chose not to give up her seat? What makes Malala Yousafzai stand up to the Taliban?

the moment man takes his right place, God can meet him in perfect grace—

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, "Art is the Flower - Life is the Green Leaf. Let every artist strive to make his flower a beautiful living thing, something that will convince the world that there may be, there are, things more precious more beautiful - more lasting than life itself.

It could never come within the range of the Spirit of God to gratify idle curiosity by the presentation of curious theories.

Beginning with the Adams family and the making of classical Edinburgh, through the creation of the mercantile palaces of Glasgow and ending in the work of the brilliant and forlorn Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architecture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had a creative ambition that at times had an influence across Europe, yet failed to develop in the twentieth. It was a failure not of talent but of patronage: the wealth and wish for prestige of the landowners, the industrialists and the nobility had either gone or gone south.