The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
ADOLF LOOSThe room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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How these people dressed, built their houses,
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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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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
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How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
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Thus he loves the house and hates art.
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The house thinks of the present.
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The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T
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I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement.
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All art is erotic.
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The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it.
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.
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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
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