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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

«God is in the details.»
Author: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Architect) | About: God | Keywords: details
«I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.»
«Less is more.»
«Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.»
«Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.»
«A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.»
«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.»
«It is better to be good than to be original.»
«True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure of us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.»
«This is no less true of steel and concrete [than of wood, brick and stone]. We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself....New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.»