62 Quotes by Walter Gropius

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism.

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.

Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.

The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.

Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.