Adolf Loos Quotes

#1. the development of culture is concurrent with the removal of ornaments from objects of daily use

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#2. There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.

Anthony Edwards

#3. 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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#4. 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.

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

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#6. The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

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#7. I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

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#8. 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.

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#9. Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

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#10. The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality.

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#11. Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

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

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#13. 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.

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#14. We can't always control what we don't like, Tiny Dancer.

Nyrae Dawn

#15. 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.

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#16. For thousands of years we have gathered in circle
around fires, around bodies, around altars
because we can't do this alone.

Wayne Muller

#17. I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

Karin Slaughter

#18. 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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#19. The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

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

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#21. 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.

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#22. Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.

Jane Fonda

#23. 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.

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#24. 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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#25. Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

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#26. 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.

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#27. Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

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#28. Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

#29. 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.

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#30. She shuddered. Little frightened her as much as the unholy canines. But she did find it amusing that the souls of evil humans who had tortured animals and were sent to Sheoul-gra got to spend a lot of time in the pits with the beasts. She'd always loved the whole an-eye-for-an-eye thing.

Larissa Ione