62 Quotes by Walter Gropius

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

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

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.

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.

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

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

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

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?

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