Arne Jacobsen Quotes

• There is always a point when one senses one’s lack of skill, the doubt.

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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.

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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.

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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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• 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.

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• The primary factor is proportions.

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

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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.

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

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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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• 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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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• 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.

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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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  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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Birth:	11th February, 1902
Death:	24th March, 1971
Nationality:	Danish
Profession:	Architect, Designer

About

Arne Emil Jacobsen was born in Copenhagen. He was a Danish architect and designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural Functionalism as well as for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs. After a spell as an apprentice mason, Jacobsen was admitted to the Architecture School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where from 1924 to 1927 he studied under Kay Fisker and Kaj Gottlob, both leading architects and designers. The year after winning the "House of the Future" award, Arne Jacobsen set up his own office. He designed the functionalist Rothenborg House, which he planned in every detail, a characteristic of many of his later works.

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