It is better to be good than to be origi... by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | We Heart Quotes

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It is better to be good than to be original.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Other quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture

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

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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 about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture Will

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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