Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

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.

I love digging myself into books because the moment I'm drifted from reality, I'm in a different world and I'm a different person.

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

I probably write the same story a hundred different ways. I suppose right now I am looking for the 101st different way to write that same story. And the 102nd, and 103rd and 111th and 133rd.

Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now