Walter Gropius Quotes

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• Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
• If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to…
• We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.
• The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a…
• A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
• A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself,…
• Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
• Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.
• 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,…
• Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate…
• Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
• Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
• Architecture begins where engineering ends.
• Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary…
• The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.

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