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Arne Jacobsen Quotes

Danish - Architect | February 11, 1902 - March 24, 1971

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

People Care Chair Buy Who Really

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.

Small Things Quality Small Silver

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.

Today Architecture Deep House Play

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 out between the columns.

Beauty Architecture Classic Air Out

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

Time People Building Hell Will Some

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

Life Architecture Become Everything

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.

Training School Think You Hard Fine

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.

Home You House Done Inspiration May

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Good Goals Reach Now Say High

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 a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.

Me Enough Furniture Say They Say

I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.

I Am Thought Bathroom Company Cost

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.

Feel Solution First Right Solutions

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