William Lethaby Quotes

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Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.

William Lethaby
A school of art is only generated by intensity, the heat of common pressure.

William Lethaby
Art is the doing well that which needs to be done.

William Lethaby
Architecture is primarily building according to the natural laws of structure and stability, according to need and order, and always with care and finish.

William Lethaby
True originality is to be found by those who, standing on the limits of the sphere of the known, reach out naturally to some apprehension and understanding of what is beyond; it is the next step in an orderly development.

William Lethaby
The only possible basis of agreement at the present time is the scientific method.

William Lethaby
Every school of art is the product of the antecedent schools plus the national equation of the moment, and these two factors may be as almost distinct and existing side by side, or they may run together into a new compound form.

William Lethaby
We have passed into a scientific age, and the old practical arts, produced instinctively, belong to an entirely different era.

William Lethaby
It is because I want poetry, humanity, and even sacredness in building that I see we must be experimental, courageous, serious, real. Archaeology has taught me "Modernism" - that is reality and no pretense.

William Lethaby
I believe that we shall not get very far till we recognize that a literary education is only one of a dozen avenues leading to true but dissimilar culture.

William Lethaby
Literary organizers of education have a great dislike of empirical methods, but art itself is empirical, and our literary friends must not deceive themselves by their own phrases.

William Lethaby