Art Quote by Walter Gropius Download Open image “The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism” — Walter Gropius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artistic Craftsmanship Fighting Imitation Inferiors
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 Image
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
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 Image
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and… — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
“Who knew that all you needed to pull in the rich dilettantes was an art production that ends all of reality?” — Dennis Liggio 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
