If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the visual world, and to the supreme enjoyment that comes from participating in the creative process of giving form to one's living space.

The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism