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Explore our hand-picked selection of 20 inspiring quotes by Walter Gropius.

About Walter Gropius

  • Born: May 18, 1883
  • Died: July 5, 1969
  • Occupation: Architect
    • Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .
    Character Spirit Building
    Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
    Art Museums Civilized Nations
    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?
    Long Fearless Culture
    However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.
    Hands Wind May
    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.
    Children Law Space
    Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. 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.
    Art Character Hands
    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.
    Immortality Claims Contribution
    Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
    Mistake People Specialists
    A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
    Democracy Architecture Modern
    Architecture begins where engineering ends.
    Engineering Design Architecture
    A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. it must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.
    Lying Design Building
    Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts.
    Art Creativity Training
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