The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

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.

Do you earn for others to burn? Why not GIVE as you LIVE, so that when you die, the world will cry.

For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.

We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

Think before you think!

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the human experience, you know, whether they're people of any stripes of life.

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.