The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art – the great structure – in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art. Walter Gropius Read Quote
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. Walter Gropius Read Quote
Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument! Walter Gropius Read Quote
We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us. Walter Gropius Read Quote
One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall. Walter Gropius Read Quote
I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life… My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened. Walter Gropius Read Quote
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. Walter Gropius Read Quote
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist! Walter Gropius Read Quote
I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught. Walter Gropius Read Quote
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. Walter Gropius Read Quote
