The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
ADOLF LOOSThe bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
More Adolf Loos Quotes
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The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement.
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How these people dressed, built their houses,
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
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The house thinks of the present.
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The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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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 shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
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The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it.
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
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He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him.
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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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The house satisfies a requirement.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T
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