Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

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.

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.

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.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

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