Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share
I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas… — Walter Gropius Copy Share
Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument! — Walter Gropius Copy Share
The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as… — Walter Gropius Copy Share
Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too… — Walter Gropius Copy Share
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to… — Walter Gropius Copy Share
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its… — Walter Gropius Copy Share
The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no… — Walter Gropius Copy Share
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share
As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. — Walter Gropius Copy Share
Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share
We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire… — Walter Gropius Copy Share
The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest… — Walter Gropius Copy Share
The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order… — Walter Gropius Copy Share
