"There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist"

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

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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“Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didnâ€™t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, thatâ€™s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. Iâ€™d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldnâ€™t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.”

Source : "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.
“I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.”

Source : Live chat, cnn.com. May 13, 1999.
“I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.”

Source : Henri Rousseau, Roger Shattuck, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France) (1985). “Henri Rousseau: essays”, Museum of Modern Art ; Boston : Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books
“Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.”
“We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.”
“I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.”
“The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.”
“The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact that the Christian has nothing more to do with the law, but lies in the fact that the law demands nothing more from the Christian as a condition of salvation. The law can no longer judge and condemn him. Instead he delights in the law of God according to the inner man and yearns for it day and night.”

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