Adolf Loos Quotes
- The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
- The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The…
- Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
- The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after…
- Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if…
- Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs…
- The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
- Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
- The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
- The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
- The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art…
- All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A…
- Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
- Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
- Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very…
- It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand…
- 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 built…