"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot……" — Arne Jacobsen
"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change."
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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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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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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 Alter Quotes
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one of 496 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
— Francis Bacon
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
— Lord Acton
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot…
— John Adams
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My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what…
— Chris Brown
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Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and…
— Luke Bryan
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The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before,…
— Kobe Bryant
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In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the…
— Kobe Bryant
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Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike.…
— Candace Bushnell
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
— Samuel Butler
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things…
— James Allen
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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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