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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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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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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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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