“Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.”

he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.

I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button

The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

How these people dressed, built their houses,

The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.

I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

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.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T

Thus he loves the house and hates art.

The house has to serve comfort

If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.