Walter Gropius Quotes

“Architecture begins where engineering ends.”

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

“Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.”

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

“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.”

“Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.”

“The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism.”

“The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.”