Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

I'm interested in form, in the shape of things. And in commitment to the degree of never letting go the quest for the meaning of things. That can come off as beauty and style, but that's not where I start from.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

I love art. It is uplifting.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph Keyes helps us to discover the clear truth about exactly what was said and who exactly said it.

It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation.