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For its ostentatious age this was a bold and aggressive formulation which echoed similar statements by architects and urban planners elsewhere, especially in Germany and Austria. “Ornament is crime,” insisted Adolf Loos.
I am not an architectural historian, but reading this my first thought became, "This is where our lack of beauty and embellishments started. This is why we all live in practical houses/buildings that are gray, identical and the antithesis of artistic and aesthetic. How far we've fallen."
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
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