Quotes by Adolf Loos - Page 1

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Sides
Truthful
Two Sides
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Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Truth
Sides
Truthful
Only
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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Inspirational
Fear
Fashion
Afraid
Being
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Demand
Form
Supply And Demand
Architectural
Regulate
Supply
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Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.
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Ornamentation
Spiritual
Spiritual Strength
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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House
Looks
Rooms
Habitable
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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Cities
Dear
Speak
Vienna
Wish
City
Herself
None
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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Art
Comfort
Conservative
House
Revolutionary
Serve
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Art
Architecture
People
Thinking
Directions
Thinks
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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Ornaments
Struggle
Years
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Architecture
Men
Architect
Bad Ass
Badass
Precise
Sentiments
Those
Task
Therefore
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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 house is not.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Art
Home
Artist
Contrary
House
Please
Please Everyone
Private
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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 in the way.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Stand
Bound
Forms
Difficulties
Simply
Material
Origin
Specific
Technical
Whose
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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.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Honest
Honest People
Law
People
Secret
Secure
Threatening
Money Law People
Appear
Bank
Courts
Declare
Gesture
Looked
Toward
Vice
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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.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Art
Men
Comfort
Hate
House
Position
Secured
Acquired
Draw
Loves
Hates
Satisfies
Thus
Wants
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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 / Architect
Men
Criminals
Years
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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 on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Abandoned
Nineteenth Century
Tradition
Intend
Nineteenth
Renew
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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.
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Art
Erotic
Lying
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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.
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Art
People
Race
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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.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Improvement
Lying
Stronger
Traditional
Walks
Years
Bond
Lie
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Inner
Otherwise
Permitted
Traditional Way
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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 is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Art
Comfort
House
People
Art Work World
Draw
Work Art World
None
Requirement
Satisfies
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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 small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Adolf Loos / Architect
Architecture
Common
Domain
Excluded
Function
House
Monument
Does
Arts
Belongs
Part
Else
Everything Else
Follow
Small
Included
Small Part
Tomb
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