The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
ADOLF LOOSThe 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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He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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All art is erotic.
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The house thinks of the present.
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How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
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. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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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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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
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It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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