Actual life Quote by Walter Gropius

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

I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas…

— Walter Gropius

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Walter Gropius

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

As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government,…

— Walter Gropius

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

— Walter Gropius

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