Quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"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."

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

"What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things."

"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."

"God is in the details."

"Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany."

"Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time."

"Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture."

"We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity."

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."