The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
ADOLF LOOSChanges in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement.
More Adolf Loos Quotes
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Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
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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 house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
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The house thinks of the present.
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he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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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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Thus he loves the house and hates art.
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. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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All art is erotic.
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I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button
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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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