Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
ADOLF LOOSTattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
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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Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
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The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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All art is erotic.
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The house thinks of the present.
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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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How these people dressed, built their houses,
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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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The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it.
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How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
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The house has to serve comfort
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The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
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The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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