List of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Simply By Not Owning Three Medium-sized Castles In Tuscany I Have Saved Enough Money In The Last Forty Years On Insurance Premiums Alone To Buy A Medium-sized Castle In Tuscany.

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.

Never Talk To A Client About Architecture. Talk To Him About His Children.

Let Us Guide Our Students Over The Road Of Discipline From Materials, Through Function, To Creative Work.

Means Must Be Subsidiary To Ends And To Our Desire For Dignity And Value.

Architecture Wrote The History Of The Epochs And Gave Them Their Names.

The Individual Is Losing Significance; His Destiny Is No Longer What Interests Us.

Architecture Begins When You Place Two Bricks Carefully Together.

[in Art], Less Is More.

Each Material Is Only What We Make It.

True Education Is Concerned Not Only With Practical Goals But Also With Values. Our Aims Assure Us Of Our Material Life, Our Values Make Possible Our Spiritual Life.

And Just As We Acquaint Ourselves With Materials, Just As We Must Understand Functions, So We Must Become Familiar With The Psychological And Spiritual Factors Of Our Day. No Cultural Activity Is Possible Otherwise; For We Are Dependent On The Spirit Of Our Time.