The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
ADOLF LOOSThe law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
More Adolf Loos Quotes
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
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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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The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
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The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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All art is erotic.
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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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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 thinks of the present.
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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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