The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
ADOLF LOOSThe law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
More Adolf Loos Quotes
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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement.
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The house thinks of the present.
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he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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How these people dressed, built their houses,
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The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
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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 would be able to infer, form the shape of that button
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I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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All art is erotic.
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The house has to serve comfort
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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
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Thus he loves the house and hates art.
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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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