Walter Gropius said this quote

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

~ Walter Gropius

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

~ Walter Gropius

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

~ Walter Gropius

Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.

~ Walter Gropius