Adolf Loos famous quotes

03-28-2025

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
-- Adolf Loos

#Not Afraid #Fashionable
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
-- Adolf Loos

#Badass #Bad Ass #Men
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

#Art #Home #House
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
-- Adolf Loos

#Art #House #Comfort
Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
-- Adolf Loos

#Sides #Truthful #Being Truthful
Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
-- Adolf Loos

#Demand #Form #Supply And Demand
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

#Men #Years #Criminals
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

#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.
-- Adolf Loos

#Art #Race #People
I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
-- Adolf Loos

#Struggle #Years #Ornaments
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.
-- Adolf Loos

#Art #Lying #Males
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

#Art #People #House
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
-- Adolf Loos

#House #Looks #Rooms
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
-- Adolf Loos

#Art #Thinking #People
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

#Law #People #Secret
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

#Lying #Years #Stronger
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
-- Adolf Loos

#Cities #Wish #Vienna

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