The house thinks of the present.
ADOLF LOOSHow these people dressed, built their houses,
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he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
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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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Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it.
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The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
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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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Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
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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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Thus he loves the house and hates art.
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