Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

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 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.

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

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.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

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