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Top 20 Adolf Loos Quotes (2025 Update)

Adolf Loos Quote: “If we find a mound six feet long and three feet wide in the forests, formed into a pyramid, shaped by a shovel, we become serious and something says, “someone lies buried here”... Now that is architecture.”

1. “If we find a mound six feet long and three feet wide in the forests, formed into a pyramid, shaped by a shovel, we become serious and something says, “someone lies buried here”... Now that is architecture.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “Supply and demand regulate architectural form.”

2. “Supply and demand regulate architectural form.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “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.”

3. “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 Quote: “Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.”

4. “Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.”

5. “Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.”

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

Adolf Loos Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.”

8. “Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “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 so a few years before he would have committed murder.”

9. “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 so a few years before he would have committed murder.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “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 woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.”

10. “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 woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.”

11. “The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.”

12. “Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.”

13. “I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.”

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

Adolf Loos Quote: “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 their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.”

15. “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 their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.”

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

Adolf Loos Quote: “The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.”

17. “The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “Art is something that must be overcome.”

18. “Art is something that must be overcome.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.”

19. “The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.”

Adolf Loos Quote: “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.”

20. “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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