Adolf Loos Quotes

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

I call architecture frozen music.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

Buildings are forms of performances.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

I love architecture.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Architecture is invention.

With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.