The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
ADOLF LOOSIt was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
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The house thinks of the present.
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How these people dressed, built their houses,
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How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T
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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 room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.
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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 have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
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The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
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Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
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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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