Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the visual world, and to the supreme enjoyment that comes from participating in the creative process of giving… — 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
