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Arne Jacobsen

Danish Architect

Born: Feb 11, 1902

Died: Mar 24, 1971

Architecture Art Been Building Done You

Related authors: Antoni Gaudi Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maya Lin Walter Gropius Zaha Hadid

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. Arne Jacobsen

Art Architecture Building Becomes Then

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right. Arne Jacobsen

Art Great You Travel Long Nothing Think Draw Great Fun Which Sketches Paint Fully Fun Aware Actual Right

The primary factor is proportions. Arne Jacobsen

Design Factor Proportions Primary

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 deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. Arne Jacobsen

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio. Arne Jacobsen

Philosophy Favourite Studio Sitting Thing

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another. Arne Jacobsen

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. Arne Jacobsen

Life Architecture Become Else Everything Everything Else Entire Entire Life Consume Tends

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. Arne Jacobsen

Architecture Long See Properly Excluded Term Buildings Any Done Should

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. Arne Jacobsen

Quality Enthusiasm Sense Other Otherwise Everything Out Threw Thrown Understand Hand Antique Shop Declined Grandma

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it. Arne Jacobsen

Buy People Care Really Who Chair Designed

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training. Arne Jacobsen

You Training School Think Has-Been Besides Fine Some Both Through Comradeship Fairly Because Been Boarding Boarding School Then Hard Resistance

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. Arne Jacobsen

Home You Later Thousands Thousands Of Years Emerge Invented Abroad Inspiration Come House Well Course None Years Years Ago Sink Impressions Done May Us Asked Fortunately Many Found

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one. Arne Jacobsen

First Other Right One Solution Solutions Fact Feel Until Although Proves Often In Fact Confronted Certain Initial Right

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 steel, even if the neighbour uses silver. Arne Jacobsen

Small Things Quality Sense Gone Way Neighbour Status Silver Small Steel Acceptable Improved Use Uses Even Things Symbol

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions. Arne Jacobsen

Best Solutions Task Artistic Choose

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. Arne Jacobsen

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