If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art,… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
“I will not subscribe to the argument that ornament increases the pleasure of the life of a cultivated person, or the argument which covers… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
“Every period had its style: why was it that our period was the only one to be denied a style? By “style” was meant… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button,… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist.… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
