Augustus Welby Pugin Quotes

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There is nothing worth living for but Christian Architecture and a boat.

Augustus Welby Pugin
The two great rules for design are these: 1st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time.

Augustus Welby Pugin
Nothing can be more dangerous than looking at prints of buildings, and trying to imitate bits of them. These architectural books are as bad as the Scriptures in the hands of the Protestants.

Augustus Welby Pugin
Yet notwithstanding the palpable impracticability of adapting Greek temples to our climate, habits and religion, we see the attempt and failure continuously made and repeated; post office, theatre, church, bath, reading-room, hotel, methodist chapel and turnpike gate, all present the eternal sameness of a Grecian temple outraged in all its proportions and character.

Augustus Welby Pugin
I seek antiquity not novelty. I strive to revive not invent.

Augustus Welby Pugin
To a Catholic priest:
How can you expect to convert England if you use a cope like that?

Augustus Welby Pugin
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

Augustus Welby Pugin
A man who remains any length of time in a modern Gothic room, and escapes without being wounded by some of its minutiae, may consider himself extremely fortunate.

Augustus Welby Pugin