Arne Jacobsen Quotes & Sayings

“The primary factor is proportions.”

“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”