The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
ADOLF LOOSBe not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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Otherwise 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 of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
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The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it.
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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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Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
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How these people dressed, built their houses,
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I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T
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