How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

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 Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

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.

However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.