Adolf Loos Men Quotations

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.

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.

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

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

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

The architect can only achieve this if he establishes a relationship with those buildings which have hitherto created this sentiment in man.