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" Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman. "
Difference
Art
Artist
" Architecture begins where engineering ends. "
Where
Architecture
Begins
" As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences. "
Consequences
Me
Name
" Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism. "
Power
Made
Art
" Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time. "
Problems
Time
You
" Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems. "
Good
Knowledge
Architecture
" I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened. "
War
Rage
Meaning
" I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught. "
I Am
Ideas
Myself
" I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin. "
Judge
Feel
Who
" If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it. "
Art
Man
Humble
" 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. "
Contribution
Always
You
" In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds. "
Society
Purpose
Great
" Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. "
Future
Architecture
Together
" Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing. "
Relationship
Nature
Change
" My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now. "
Community
Now
Important
" New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction. "
Construction
Raw
New
" One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall. "
Wall
New
Been
" Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. "
Meaning
Work
Spiritual
" Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage. "
Fresh
Masses
Solid
" 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. "
Life
Design
Intellectual
" Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy. "
Life
Greed
Community
" Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist! "
Imagination
Creative
Artist
" Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes. "
Same Mistakes
People
Mistakes
" The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture. "
Art
Architecture
New
" The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring. "
More
Days
Over
" The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue. "
Serious
Early
Architecture
" The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination. "
Tyranny
Fear
Individuality
" The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible. "
Future
Daily
Building
" The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat. "
Our
Responsibility
Believe
" The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold. "
Spirit
World
Culture
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