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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

~Adolf Loos

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Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

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Topics: Nature Only Sides Truth Truthful

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

~Adolf Loos

Topics: Art Comfort Conservative House Revolutionary Serve Work

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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

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Topics: Art Directions Future House New People Present Shows Thinks Work

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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

Topics: Architecture Art Arts Belongs Common Does Domain Else Everything Everything Else Excluded Follow Function House Included Monument Nothing Only Part Small Small Part Tomb Very

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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

Topics: Acquired Art Comfort Draw Everything Hates He Him His House Loves Man Out Position Satisfies Secured Thus Wants

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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

Topics: Abandoned Because Before Beginning Built Century Intend Just Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Past Point Present Renew Times Tradition

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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.

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Topics: Art Artist Contrary Does Everyone House Matter Please Please Everyone Private Which Work

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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

Topics: Art Being Brought Comfort Draw Everyone House Need None Out People Requirement Responsible Satisfies State Wants Without Work World

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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

~Adolf Loos

Topics: Architect Architecture Make Man More Precise Sentiments Task Therefore Those

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Architect

Born: December 10th, 1870

Died: August 8th, 1933

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