The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
ADOLF LOOSThe 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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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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The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it.
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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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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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The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of 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 Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
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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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