108 Quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Less is more!

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.