Arne Jacobsen

The primary factor is proportions.

— Arne Jacobsen

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

— Arne Jacobsen

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

— Arne Jacobsen

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

— Arne Jacobsen

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

— Arne Jacobsen

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

— Arne Jacobsen

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too…

— Arne Jacobsen

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

— Arne Jacobsen

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago

— Arne Jacobsen

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

— Arne Jacobsen

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

— Arne Jacobsen

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

— Arne Jacobsen

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

— Arne Jacobsen

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution…

— Arne Jacobsen

I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate…

— Arne Jacobsen

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his…

— Arne Jacobsen

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it…

— Arne Jacobsen

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense…

— Arne Jacobsen

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable…

— Arne Jacobsen

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight…

— Arne Jacobsen

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and…

— Arne Jacobsen

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you…

— Arne Jacobsen

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much,…

— Arne Jacobsen

Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say.…

— Arne Jacobsen

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels…

— Arne Jacobsen

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working…

— Arne Jacobsen

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has…

— Arne Jacobsen

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing…

— Arne Jacobsen

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is…

— Arne Jacobsen

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both…

— Arne Jacobsen

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one…

— Arne Jacobsen

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything,…

— Arne Jacobsen