Gropius Quotes

#1. The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education ... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.

Ken Adam

#2. I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Michael Graves

#3. Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Walter Gropius

#4. Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

Walter Gropius

#5. Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Walter Gropius

#6. 90% of everything is crap.

Theodore Sturgeon

#7. A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

Walter Gropius

#8. The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.

Walter Gropius

#9. Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Aristotle.

#10. A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Walter Gropius

#11. The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

Walter Gropius

#12. Life is a journey.
Follow your own path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.

Walter Gropius

#14. Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

Sheryl Sandberg

#15. Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

Walter Gropius

#16. Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category.

Marcus Giles

#17. Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.

Margaret Wise Brown

#18. How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

Walter Gropius

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

Walter Gropius

#22. Is that bulge my imagination, or was her really no lying about having a nine inch cock?

Kendall Ryan

#23. Love doesn't keep score," he challenged.
I shrugged my shoulders. "But people do ...

Donna Lynn Hope

#24. Genuine holiness restores human beings; restored human beings possess genuine holiness.

John Eldredge

#25. Don't confuse simple, reasonable honesty with radical silliness. There is no reason to try to articulate blurry feelings or over-explain every detail. The point is to be honest instead of internalizing, not to try to extract juicy confessionals out of everyday life.

Ann Burton

#26. His hands slipped down her neck and landed on her shoulders. Tipping his chin down, his fevered eyes met hers. Are you sure that's what you want, Bridget? Because once I start, I won't stop again. I will take you - take you so hard that every breath afterward is only going to remind you of me.

J. Lynn

#27. 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

#28. Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

Walter Gropius

#29. 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.

Walter Gropius

#30. My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

Slim Jimmy

#31. Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

Walter Gropius

#32. When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

Sandra Cisneros

#33. The best way to get along with people is not to expect them to like you.

Joyce Meyer