The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
ADOLF LOOSThe work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
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. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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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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It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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The house has to serve comfort
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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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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.
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The house thinks of the present.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
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How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
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All art is erotic.
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he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
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