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Top 25 Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quotes (2025 Update)

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “Less is more.”

1. “Less is more.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “God dwells in the details.”

2. “God dwells in the details.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.”

3. “First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.”

4. “Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”

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

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.”

6. “I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet.”

7. “Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood.”

8. “No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “But what if we are dealing with fools?”

9. “But what if we are dealing with fools?”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.”

10. “The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.”

11. “If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be...”

12. “We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be...”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.”

13. “We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “Each material is only what we make it.”

14. “Each material is only what we make it.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.”

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

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”

16. “A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.”

17. “Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.”

18. “True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.”

19. “Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.”

20. “Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.”

21. “Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.”

22. “Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.”

23. “And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.”

24. “Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Quote: “Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.”

25. “Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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