. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
ADOLF LOOS. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
ADOLF LOOSArchitecture arouses sentiments in man. T
ADOLF LOOSI would be able to infer, form the shape of that button
ADOLF LOOSHow they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
ADOLF LOOSThe work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
ADOLF LOOSThe work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
ADOLF LOOSThe Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
ADOLF LOOSAll art is erotic.
ADOLF LOOSThe house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
ADOLF LOOSIf someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.
ADOLF LOOSHe hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him.
ADOLF LOOSThe house thinks of the present.
ADOLF LOOSIt was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
ADOLF LOOSA vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
ADOLF LOOSThe work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it.
ADOLF LOOSI have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
ADOLF LOOS