Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

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.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

Nothing proves evolution more than the survival of the religious belief. It shows we are still fearful, partially formed animals with a terror of death and the dark

When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket.

That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.

I don't care about the fact that a dogs place is not in a bed - the closer they are to me, the more beautiful it is.

What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.

We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.

You have to be intimate with a person to know that person.

When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, 'Forty-seven years - and I find I mind it less and less.

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

In the end [after the 1905 revolution], Russia gained nothing more than a breathing spell.