Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

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

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

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.