"We want to create the purely organic building,……" — Walter Gropius
"We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation."
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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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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 Boldly Quotes
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some…
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A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him;…
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We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important…
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith…
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
— Tacitus
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If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a…
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's…
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Their example gives witness to the fact that baptism commits Christians to participate boldly in the spread of the Kingdom…
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The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn…
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Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ.…
— Martin Luther
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