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.

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

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

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

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.