Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Education Quotes – “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.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Design Quotes – “A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Christmas Quotes – “God is in the details.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Chance Quotes – “Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Beauty Quotes – “What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Beauty Quotes – “Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine – ‘Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Art Quotes – “I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Architecture Quotes – “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.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Architecture Quotes – “Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Architecture Quotes – “I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Architecture Quotes – “Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Architecture Quotes – “Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.”