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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.