"The primary factor is proportions." — Arne Jacobsen

"The primary factor is proportions."

— Arne Jacobsen

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31 Quotes by Arne Jacobsen

Arne Jacobsen has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there…
That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up…
It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one…
But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their…
Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that…
People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.
There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt
None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the…
On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There,…

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More Design Quotes

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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating… — Giorgio Armani
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and… — Lance Armstrong
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions… — Mary Astell
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be… — Marcus Aurelius
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete… — Douglas Adams
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks

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