#use

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#combined #courtesy #find #golden #house

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#full #ghosts #gloom #graces #haunted

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#because #being #censored #ever #feel

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. ↗

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#had #her #history #made #menopause

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. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#art #comfort #disturbs #draw #everything

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#because #before #beginning #built #century

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. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#art #arts #belongs #common #does

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. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#bound #difficulties #does #forms #intimately

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

— Adolf Loos

#comfort #conservative #house #revolutionary #serve

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

— Adolf Loos

#habitable #house #look #room