The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
ADOLF LOOSSupply and demand regulate architectural form.
More Adolf Loos Quotes
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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 work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it.
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The house has to serve comfort
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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 house thinks of the present.
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. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
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The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
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It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.
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Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
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The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
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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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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
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