The house thinks of the present.
ADOLF LOOShe architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
More Adolf Loos Quotes
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The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement.
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
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How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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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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All art is erotic.
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The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
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I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
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