Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes
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Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.
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[In art], less is more.
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I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.
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What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.
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Less is more.
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Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.
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I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.
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First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.
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If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously. So, I do not make every building different.
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Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside.
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The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.
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Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
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Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
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The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.
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Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
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The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.
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It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
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Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.
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I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
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Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
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Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.
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It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
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We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.
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Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.