"If architecture had nothing to do with art,……" — Arne Jacobsen
"If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting."
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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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