“Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.”
— Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
Architecture begins where engineering ends.”
— Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
“If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.”
— Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
“Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.”
— Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
“Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.”
— Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
“Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts.”
— Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
“Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.”
— Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
“Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.”
— Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
“A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.”
— Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
“The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.”
— Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
"Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society."
— Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
"The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism."
— Walter Gropius (1883-1969)