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

- Walter Gropius

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 f…

- Walter Gropius

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…

- Walter Gropius

Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

- Walter Gropius

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a height…

- Walter Gropius

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

- Walter Gropius

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

- Walter Gropius

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

- Walter Gropius

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

- Walter Gropius