"The mind is like an umbrella. Its most…" — Walter Gropius
"The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open."
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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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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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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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