Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

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

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.

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

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.