Quotes by Walter Gropius

• Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
• Architecture begins where engineering ends.
• 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.
• 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.
• Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.