Adolf Loos Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Adolf Loos
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“Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.”
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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.”
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“Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.”
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“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Supply and demand regulate architectural form.”
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“The architect can only achieve this if he establishes a relationship with those buildings which have hitherto created this sentiment in man.”
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