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The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

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Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

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- Walter Gropius

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

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

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The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

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

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