The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
ADOLF LOOSI have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.
More Adolf Loos Quotes
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How these people dressed, built their houses,
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The house thinks of the present.
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The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
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How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
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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 has to serve comfort
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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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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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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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I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.
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The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
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The house satisfies a requirement.
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The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
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