The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it.
ADOLF LOOSIt was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.
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The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
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Thus he loves the house and hates art.
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I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button
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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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I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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The house thinks of the present.
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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
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. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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The house satisfies a requirement.
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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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Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
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