Walter Gropius Quotes

I knew I had to find my own way of teaching.

I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.

I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went to an art college and I did my foundation in art.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

I'm drawn to things that aren't particularly popular at the time. I don't know why.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.

I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's a particular way of coming at stories and looking at them that I find the most beautiful stuff that I know comes from, ultimately.

Kim Il Sung University should set an example for all other universities of the country to follow in introducing innovative teaching methods.

If people don't love what you're doing, that doesn't mean you're wrong.

I don't study any films. I'll watch them, but I don't study anyone else.

Doing things outside of the traditional fashion gives me the opportunity to bring a fresh eye to unexpected markets.

I've always been interested in kind of doing the thing that you weren't necessarily recommended to do.

I did not want to do things the way they are usually done in Hindi cinema.

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

With the 'Boosh,' we were trying to do this strange, weird thing that had its own language and visual style, and it wasn't really what the powers that be wanted.

I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.

I think everyone has their roles, and in my opinion, I'm like the young hot boy of OVO: stubborn, very step-out-on-his-own and do-his-own-thing.

I've always wanted to be my own player from the start and do things a bit differently to what the others do. I want to play my own way.