Arne Jacobsen

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

— Arne Jacobsen

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If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

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

— Arne Jacobsen

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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

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

— Arne Jacobsen

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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

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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

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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. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

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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

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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

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