The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
ADOLF LOOSThe 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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I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button
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The house satisfies a requirement.
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It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
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The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
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All art is erotic.
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The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
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. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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