Walter Gropius Quotes

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

No one will train me but my father.

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

The advice of elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Technology allows us to do many things, but it is always important to combine it with traditional handcrafts and, in fact, use technology to replicate dying arts so that they are not lost.

I taught Drake everything he knows.

I learned to do things the way the old-timers did.

You've got these young kids out here that have to learn, but you learn from the guys above you. I learned from the Kevin Faulks.

Capello put me behind Demetrio Albertini, so I had the right position. I had to follow him like a shadow. It was to learn the basics, but at the same time, it was also a great vote of confidence.

I think it is so important to pass down knowledge and information to younger generations.

I've been fortunate my whole career because I've had great guys to learn from.

As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.

Dad's the master, I'm the student.

I do believe that mentorship is something I did not get in school, and I don't think it exists in school in a sufficient way.

Only a disciple can make a disciple.

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.

I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for use. And for me, not to rely strictly on the history of art has always been an interesting process, to be looking into areas that we call craft and trades.

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.