"But inspiration? - That's when you come home……" — Arne Jacobsen
"But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago."
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31 Quotes by Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen has 31 quotes on this site.
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If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
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A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there…
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That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.
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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up…
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It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one…
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But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their…
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Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that…
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People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.
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There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt
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None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago
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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the…
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The primary factor is proportions.
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More Abroad Quotes
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one of 501 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a…
— Tucker Carlson
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly…
— William Ellery Channing
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it…
— Edward Kennedy
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