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

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.

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.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

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 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.