Quote by Adolf Loos
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the futu

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

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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

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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architects task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. – Adolf Loos

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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

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The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world. – Stephen Gardiner

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Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. – James Wyatt

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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! – T. E. Lawrence

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