"On the other hand, I don't understand the……" — 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 of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out"
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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 Antique Quotes
This quote is filed under Antique Quotes,
one of 78 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores.…
— Ursula Andress
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
— Ursula Andress
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You have to fight against being an antique
— Burt Lancaster
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I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that…
— Unknown Author
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We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage
— Maurice Barres
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Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes,…
— Georges Perec
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I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when Im abroad or if I find…
— Lily Donaldson
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I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.
— Lance Loud
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I'm the oldest antique in town.
— Norman Rockwell
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He may not see the King's antique apparel on kids in the Hall, but he does feel a tinge of…
— Unknown Author
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Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
— Robert Ardrey
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The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray…
— William Butler Yeats
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