Adolf Loos Quotes

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

~ Adolf Loos

It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from the lavatory pan to the ashtray. On the contrary, I like people to move their furniture so that it suits them (not me!), and it's quite natural (and I approve) when they bring the old pictures and mementos they have come to love into a new interior, irrespective of whether they are good taste or bad.

~ Adolf Loos

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

~ Adolf Loos

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

~ Adolf Loos

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

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

~ Adolf Loos

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