Artistic Activity Quotes by Walter Gropius

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and…
• 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.

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