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The primary factor is proportions.
Arne Jacobsen / Architect
Death
Design
Proportion
Factor
Primary
Proportions
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If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
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Art
Smile
Architecture
Building
Ifs
Becomes
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People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.
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Care
Chairs
People
People Care Who
Buy
Chair
Designed
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I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.
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Favourite
Philosophy
Sitting
Studio
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That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.
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Artistic
Solutions
Tasks
Task
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There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt
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Doubt
Senses
Skills
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There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.
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Doubt
Senses
Skill
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None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
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Done
House
Years
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Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
Arne Jacobsen / Architect
Architecture
Gothic Architecture
Consume
Else
Entire
Entire Life
Everything Else
Tends
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Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.
Arne Jacobsen / Architect
Building
Hell
People
Time Hell People
Condemn
Every Time
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I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
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Architecture
Done
Excluded
Long
Term
Buildings
Properly
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Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.
Arne Jacobsen / Architect
Architecture
Building
Order
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But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.
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Children
Parent
Thinking
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Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
Arne Jacobsen / Architect
Conservation
Done
Environment
Mars
Downside
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A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.
Arne Jacobsen / Architect
Long
Mind
Nice
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It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.
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Creation
May
Sound
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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 / Architect
Certain
Facts
Firsts
Although
Confronted
Often
Fact
In Fact
Initial
Proves
Solution
Right One
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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 / Architect
Art
Travel
Fun
Paint
Actual
Aware
Draw
Fully
Great Fun
Sketches
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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.
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America
Appropriate
Bathroom
Cost
Usa
Lowering
Thus
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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.
Arne Jacobsen / Architect
Beauty
Architecture
Air
Block
Classic
Columns
Greek
Huge
Temples
Blocks
Literally
Proportions
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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 / Architect
Quality
Acceptable
Gone
Neighbour
Silver
Small Things
Steel
Improved
Status
Symbol
Uses
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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 - is always that of selecting.
Arne Jacobsen / Architect
Art
Architecture
Architect
House
Tasks
Art Architecture Always
Difficult Task
Houses
Selecting
Task
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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 / Architect
Comradeship
Fine
Resistance
School
Thinking
Training
Fairly
Besides
Boarding
Boarding School
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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.
Arne Jacobsen / Architect
Getting High
Goal
High Goals
Might
Oneself
Carrying
Sets
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You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.
Arne Jacobsen / Architect
Sad
Feels
Finding The One
Interest
Littles
Obsessive
Time Work I Am
Although
Finding
Interests
Restricted
Simmer
Soon
Strangely
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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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Architect
Building
Objects
Painter
Used
Utility
Begin
Alter
Sculptor
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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, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
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Quality
Enthusiasm
Grandma
Hands
Thrown
Antique
Declined
Shop
Otherwise
Threw
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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 / Architect
Architecture
Architect
Curtains
Daylight
House
Order
Play
Necessity
Designed
Houses
Large
Pull
Role
Windows
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In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
Arne Jacobsen / Architect
Architecture
Aesthetic
Aspect
May
Raises
Tasks
Functional
Addressing
Options
Practical
Several
Task
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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
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Enough
Furniture
Plastic
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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 / Architect
Aspect
Modern
Relaxation
Seems
Today
Work Good Business
Terribly
Work Business Good
Interests
One Aspect
Varied
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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.
Arne Jacobsen / Architect
Danish
Furniture
Justify
Machinery
Big Enough
Costly
Experiment
Manufacturer
Requires
They Say
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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 / Architect
Home
Inspiration
Years
Years Ago
Abroad
Emerge
Fortunately
None
Sink
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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