It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
ADOLF LOOSThe room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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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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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
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The house satisfies a requirement.
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How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
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The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.
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The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.
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The house thinks of the present.
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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 would be able to infer, form the shape of that button
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Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
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All art is erotic.
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