Adolf Loos Quotes

I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

My office looks very empty compared with my house. The house is completely crammed full with things that Patrick and I love. It's very eclectic. There are things that have no value but which we like. We have a lot of Belgian painters; we have international painters. We have nice things; we have ugly things. I don't want that things are predictable.

I don't do any art to please any people.

Music is so subjective and personal, I don't expect people to like everything I do. But that's life and you have to live unapologetically.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

I don't really have one style; I just choose what I like best each time.

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

My style is all to myself.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Making art is different for everyone.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

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

I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

I think everybody has their own unique style.

What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.