Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

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

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

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

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

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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

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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.

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It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.

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