Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our wor... -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Architect
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes to Explore

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Archit...
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good....
God is in the details....
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say a...
Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age...
It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It h...
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance....
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions co...
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates....
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form....

Beauty Quotes to Explore

I think each woman has her own relationship to beauty....
The ever-renewed instances of beauty and fairness passing over the faces of the beings in the universe show that they are shadows of the manifestation...
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that s...
When I am going out, I am in ponytail, jeans, tees. I am just like any girl-next-door. Beauty is not external; it's internal. When you are a happy sou...
One of the big things I've learned over the years and I'm excited that Glossier perpetuates is that wherever you're at, in terms of your scope of know...
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired....
It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be....
Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires...
The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and ...
But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th ...