“It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does...” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quote

“It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?”

“What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.”

“We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.”

“Nine out of nine architects start with a sketch, and then they say, 'What should we make it out of?' I start from the bottom up - what should it be made out of - and then I worry about what should it look like. The material, the color of the material, the way it feels, and the way you respond to it is every bit as valid as the form or the shape.”

“The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.”