Famous Quotes

"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."

Adolf Loos on Home

More quotes about Home

• "Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

  Margaret Thatcher on Home

• "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

  Benjamin Franklin on Home

• "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

  Oliver Wendell Holmes on Home

• "Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."

  Bill Cosby on Home

• "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

  Robert Frost on Home

More quotes by Adolf Loos

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

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

• "Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art."

• "Be truthful, nature only sides with truth."

• "Be truthful, nature only sides with truth."