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

Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

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.

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

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

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

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

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?

Remember, ” she whispered, “it’s only when the night is darkest that you can see the light of the stars.

the meaning of life is to help each other get through. The purpose of life is to live, with all 5 senses, and enjoy the gift

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

The goat, for us, is an image that's stuck in our heads since we were kids, coming from Iowa people are like 'Beware the horned goat of satan!' and all that. It's bullshit. It's just an animal.

Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.

Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.

Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

I want to be only a poor friar who prays - if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!

It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.