Arne Jacobsen Quotes

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• 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 is nothing I mind as…
• 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 with anything, because he makes…
• It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon…
• But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.
• Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach.…
• 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 air has been literally hewn…
• The primary factor is proportions.
• 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…
• Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.
• 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…
• Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me…
• Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.
• And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very…
• In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless…
• I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

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