The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
ADOLF LOOS. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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All art is erotic.
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
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How these people dressed, built their houses,
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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
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It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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The house has to serve comfort
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Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
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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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He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him.
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. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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The house satisfies a requirement.
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement.
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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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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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