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

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 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.

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

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?

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.

The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.