Architecture begins where engineering ends.

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.

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

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?

The height of your accomplishments is determined by the depth of your convictions.

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act.

Revolution is but thought carried into action.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.