"Children should be introduced right from the start……" — Walter Gropius
"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, and to the supreme enjoyment that comes from participating in the creative process of giving form to one's living space."
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15 Quotes by Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius has 15 quotes on this site.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that…
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We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.
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The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft!…
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A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
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A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It…
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Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
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Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.
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Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an…
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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