“So you see, photography says nothing. Photography produces pretty or not so pretty pictures. It deverts people from the real object; miseducates them. It is photography’s fault that people want to furnish their rooms not for living in, but to look nice. Photography cheats. I have never tried to cheat anyone with my things. It is a method I condemn. But our architects have been educated in this method of illusion alone and develop out of it. They make their reputation with pretty drawings and beautiful photographs. They do it deliberately, because they know that people are so helpless that a graphic—a photographic illusion—is sufficient to get them to live in the interior and even be proud of it. And the clients are so dishonest even to themselves, that they accept—in an act of self-denial—to live in all these drawings and photographs.” —Adolf Loos. Tirado daqui.
