Nobody could have prepared me for the life I've had to become accustomed to.
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.
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.
Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.
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.
The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.
The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism
I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.
Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.
Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.
You never know what's going to happen, so I get up at 6 a. m. every morning. It's a new wakeup call for me, for sure. But you just want to be polished. That way, if anything happens, I'm ready to go. I'm not going to sit in a makeup chair for an hour and be like, "Then I'll go get the story. "