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 …

- Adolf Loos

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

- Adolf Loos

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

- 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

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…

- 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

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 …

- Adolf Loos

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…

- Adolf Loos