Walter Gropius Quotes

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

My mom is a sculptress.

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I love painting.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Craft is part of the creative process.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it's hard to go back.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.