The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
ADOLF LOOSOtherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
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The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button
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The house satisfies a requirement.
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.
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Thus he loves the house and hates art.
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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement.
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The house thinks of the present.
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The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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