Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
ADOLF LOOSAll art is erotic.
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It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
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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 brought into the world without there being a need for it.
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The house satisfies a requirement.
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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.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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Thus he loves the house and hates art.
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he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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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 these people dressed, built their houses,
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The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
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The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
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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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