Contribution Quote by Walter Gropius

“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 immortality.”

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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!

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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too…

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The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no…

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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

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