Best quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on Work

Checkout quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on Work

  • 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
  • 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
  • I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe