Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quotes

"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."
-Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe in Education quotes.

"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."
-Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
-Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe in Architecture quotes.

"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."
-Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."
-Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
-Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe in Architecture quotes.

"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."
-Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe