Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

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I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

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The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. We must have order, allocating to each thing it's proper place and giving to each thing is due according to it's nature.

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If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

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Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

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Less is more!

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