he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
ADOLF LOOSMan loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
More Adolf Loos Quotes
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The house has to serve comfort
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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 is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
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. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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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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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement.
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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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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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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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