Mies van der Rohe

Less is more.

God is in the details.

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

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

We should try to make an architecture for a new epoch.

The new era is a fact; it exists, irrespective of our approval or disapproval.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

The structure is the whole.

We must be clear that the problem of building is a problem of construction, not of aesthetics.

The individual is losing his significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

I refuse to invent a new architecture every Monday morning.

I am not interested in the history of architecture, but in the history of man.

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

Architecture is a language. When you are good, you can be a poet.

We must remember that everything depends on how we build.

Truth is the highest goal.

The long, arduous path from the material to the spiritual.

We stand on the threshold of a new epoch.

The problem of building is a problem of construction, not of aesthetics.

I believe that architecture has little to do with the invention of forms.