Quotes About Bauhaus

#1. I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.

Fred Durst

#2. Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

Martin Filler

#3. Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people to understand Doors music is certainly a testament to their intellects.

Ray Manzarek

#4. From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

Martin Filler

#5. Like the time I threw out Pete Murphy of Bauhaus for saying those six immortal words to Slim when he'd forgotten his backstage pass: 'Don't you know who I am?'
'Ha, ha, yeah, I do,' I said, 'You're out, arsehole'.

Peter Hook

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

Walter Gropius

#7. I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

James Dyson

#8. Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.

Martin Filler

#9. Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's "form follows function," what they meant was,
form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it,
because there is no effort to spare for error.
Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.

Paul Graham

#11. One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#12. A grey wrinkled vastness, like the residue of a dream

Hilary Mantel

#13. I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.

Lillian Smith

#14. The gospel shall be victorious. This greatly comforts and refreshes me.

John Owen

#15. The next morning, I am silly and light. Every time I push the smile from my face, it fights its way back. Eventually I stop suppressing it.

Veronica Roth

#16. Let's go to that Jamaican place around the corner from you."
"Cluck You Chicken? Are you serious? The health department probably uses that restaurant for training exercises.

Mary Ann Rivers

#17. He was my Huckleberry, my Han Solo, my one, but most of all he was my Becks and I was his Sal. That was the truth. It

Cookie O'Gorman

#18. Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#19. I spent my childhood in northern New York State, and like many kids, bugs and other critters fascinated me.

Romulus Whitaker

#20. I would imagine that not having any potential could be less difficult than not fulfilling it.

Dov Davidoff

#21. This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

Francois Fenelon

#22. As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

Esa-Pekka Salonen