It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for ou...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The idea of service leads to community.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This i...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfoldi...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That i...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new buildi...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real h...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reach...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A c...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and fort...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, no...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Less is more.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE God is in the details.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good polit...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will rema...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last for...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us o...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their ins...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying ou...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is n...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple trut...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is better to be good than to be original.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Each material has its specific characteristics in which we must understand it if we want to use it. ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buil...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE This is no less true of steel and concrete [than of wood, brick and stone]. We must remember that ev...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure of u...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must b...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even g...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house comp...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of fun...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Dios está en los detalles.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE 1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last for...
MIES VAN DER ROHE God is in the details.
MIES VAN DER ROHE Less is more.
MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
MIES VAN DER ROHE It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your c...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.

(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always ...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no farther...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers toda...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on t...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind b...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people....
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out t...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Music comes to me more readily than words.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any socia...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no fa...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far ...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to recei...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted wi...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thous...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others ...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; tha...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Applaud friends, the comedy is over. (Said as he was dying)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Applaud friends, the comedy is over.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosop...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN I can live only wholly with you or not at all
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise ...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine of a new procreation, an...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There i...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Ben buydum, buyum ve bu olacağım. Hiçbir ölümlü maskemi değiştiremez.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adver...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farthe...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as full...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on the backside.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Do not let that trouble Your Excellency; perhaps the greetings are intended for me.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really ...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable!
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Fürst! Was Sie sind, sind Sie durch Zufall und Geburt, was ich bin, bin ich durch mich. Fürsten ha...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as s...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Applaud my friends, the comedy is over...
[on his death bed]
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on t...
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warn...
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised...
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. T...
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no poin...
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself
JAMES VAN DER ZEE Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, ...
SIMON VAN DER MEER We must protect them (animals) and this land. If the animals die, this land dies. If this land dies,...
DIANE VAN DER WESTHUIZEN One thing that man HAS learned from history, is how to kill (animals) more efficiently.
DIANE VAN DER WESTHUIZEN By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environment...
ROGIER VAN DER HEIDE I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easie...
JAMES VAN DER BEEK Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the...
LAURENS VAN DER POST There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individ...
LAURENS VAN DER POST There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.
ROGER VAN DER HEIDE Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they ...
LAURENS VAN DER POST The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destro...
JAMES VAN DER BEEK I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.
JAMES VAN DER BEEK It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.
JAMES VAN DER BEEK The Internet, and Google, and everything that goes along with that is awesome for some things, but n...
ANNELIESE VAN DER POL I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 19...
SIMON VAN DER MEER I remember the moment when I looked at a newsstand and stared at myself on a cover for the first tim...
FREDERIQUE VAN DER WAL ..."Suzette Boon also become very much involved [in dissocation]... She was in my office and was a f...
ONNO VAN DER HART The psychological impact of trauma in both the military and civilian arenas has been documented for ...
ONNO VAN DER HART We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solu...
ROGIER VAN DER HEIDE There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing.
ROGIER VAN DER HEIDE My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
SIMON VAN DER MEER Dit is geen kroeg of studentehuis. Dit is een ziekenhuis en het is niet de bedoeling dat hier 's avo...
MYRTHE VAN DER MEER Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy.
LAURENS VAN DER POST We have the responsibility to care for the ocean as it cares for us
SUZANNE VAN DER VEEKEN Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the c...
LAURENS VAN DER POST Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
LAURENS VAN DER POST I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and s...
JAMES VAN DER BEEK The contrast with the scans of the eighteen chronic PTSD patients with severe early-life trauma was ...
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic ...
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK Never cut short your waiting with compromise. Simply put, the waiting's not over until the waiting's...
DUKE ROHE They're going to need supplements to keep up with the other (calves).
JIM ROHE Waiting may seem in the way of us getting to where we want to go. But many times, it is through wait...
DUKE ROHE I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I co...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK BEFRIENDING THE BODY

Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and b...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gna...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK I live my life to the Power of "E.X.T.R.E.M.E." but i can multiply it by whatever is on the table...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Leave your Legacy on earth when you leave, to continue changing lives when you no longer can..
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE If your doors keep on becoming walls, your ideas are not explosive enough...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE You can stand first in line at the door of destiny, but only you can open it and walk through...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE We are not living in a tech starved world, so how do we build the next biggest thing? One idea at a ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Walking a thousand roads throughout my life, some good and some bad. I realised the one constant was...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE There were times i was sure and i tried, then times i was not sure and i never tried...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Instead of trying to change the world, rebuild it in code...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE I believe that one day we will all be free, on this day our time on earth will be done...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE We all have a time and place, we would return to in the blink of an eye...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Your passion can be measured by success, the more passionate you are the more determined you will be...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE To master your enemy, is to master their mind. Once you own their mind, you own them...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Any argument that is built wholly upon the denigration of another, without any reference to evidence...
JOHANNES DIRK VAN DER MEER Beauty is not a mindset, its how you set that beautiful mind...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE In a world that has everything, it’s time to create the nothing...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Life is short with room for mistakes, just don't let mistakes take up too much room...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE If time is all we have, then time is all we need...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE When i didn't pass anyone, i thought i was running the race of life alone. Then i realised i was in ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Just take another shot, because one more shot might be all you have got...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE We all have a love for something, its what we love that ultimately sets us apart...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Rebooting my life... Please wait...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE When we change the world, we try to change future events, time lines, outcomes or even sources of ev...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE The Ghost's of your yesterday are knocking at your door, they want to give you back the key to your ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE I have wondered if world changers had any idea of the impact their vision would have on humanity. Ma...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE There were times in my life i thought for sure the end was near. But it was only the end of that tim...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Time may be a finely woven thread, yet it holds our yesterday, today and tomorrow together...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Time will have its place, and every place will have its time...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE