"Only work which is the product of inner……" — Walter Gropius
"Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning."
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Walter Gropius
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15 Quotes by Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius has 15 quotes on this site.
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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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Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws…
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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 Compulsion Quotes
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one of 264 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
— Lynda Barry
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and…
— Julie Burchill
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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous…
— John Cleese
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
— Ludwig von Mises
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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his…
— Bernard Iddings Bell
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