List of Adolf Loos Quotes

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Adolf Loos
Total Quotes 18
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 by honest people.
Law People Secret
The potemkin city of which i wish to speak here is none other than our dear vienna herself.
Cities Wish Vienna
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 him. thus he loves the house and hates art.
Art Hate Men
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, their mentality.
Art Race People
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. the house thinks of the present.
Art Thinking People
I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. i have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
Struggle Years Ornaments
Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
Demand Form Supply And Demand
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 it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
Lying Years Stronger
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 horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. a vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
Art Lying Erotic
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
House Looks Rooms
Be truthful. nature only sides with truth.
Two Sides Sides Truthful
The house has to serve comfort. the work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
Art House Comfort
  • Born: December 10, 1870
  • Died: August 23, 1933
  • Occupation: Architect
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