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Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.
~ Arne Jacobsen
Almost
Building
Condemn
Every
Every Time
Hell
Make
People
Some
Some People
Straight
Time
Will
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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
Big
Come
Curtains
Daylight
Deep
Designed
House
Houses
Large
Necessity
Order
Play
Pull
Role
Then
Today
Very
Which
Windows
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Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
~ Arne Jacobsen
Architecture
Become
Consume
Else
Entire
Entire Life
Everything
Everything Else
Life
Tends
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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
Because
Been
Besides
Boarding
Boarding School
Both
Comradeship
Fairly
Fine
Hard
Has-Been
I Think
Resistance
School
Some
Then
Think
Through
Training
You
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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
Abroad
Asked
Come
Course
Done
Emerge
Fortunately
Found
Home
House
Impressions
Inspiration
Invented
Later
Many
May
None
Sink
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Us
Well
Years
Years Ago
You
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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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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
Big
Big Enough
Costly
Danish
Dares
Enough
Experiment
Furniture
Justify
Machinery
Manufacturer
Manufacturing
Market
Me
Requires
Say
Show
Take
They Say
Very
Which
Who
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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
Am
Appropriate
Bathroom
Company
Cost
Going
I Am
Lowering
Simplify
Then
Thought
Thus
USA
Working
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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
Although
Certain
Confronted
Fact
Feel
First
In Fact
Initial
Often
Other
Proves
Right
Right One
Solution
Solutions
Until
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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.
~ Arne Jacobsen
Any
Architecture
Buildings
Done
Excluded
Long
Properly
See
Should
Term
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I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.
~ Arne Jacobsen
Favourite
Philosophy
Sitting
Studio
Thing
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If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
~ Arne Jacobsen
Architecture
Art
Becomes
Building
Then
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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
Always
Architect
Architecture
Art
Build
Difficult
Difficult Task
Easy
Had
His
Houses
Most
Nothing
Selecting
Task
Would
Would-Be
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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
Acceptable
Even
Gone
Improved
Neighbour
Quality
Sense
Silver
Small
Small Things
Status
Steel
Symbol
Things
Use
Uses
Way
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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
Addressing
Aesthetic
Almost
Always
Architecture
Aspect
Few
Functional
Lack
May
Only
Options
Possible
Practical
Raises
Several
Sometimes
Task
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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
Almost
Always
Conservation
Conserve
Done
Downside
Environment
Mars
Much
Now
Public
Wanted
Which
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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.
~ Arne Jacobsen
Antique
Declined
Enthusiasm
Everything
Grandma
Hand
Other
Otherwise
Out
Quality
Sense
Shop
Threw
Thrown
Understand
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People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.
~ Arne Jacobsen
Buy
Care
Chair
Designed
People
Really
Who
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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
Air
Beauty
Been
Between
Blocks
Classic
Columns
Greek
Has-Been
Huge
Like
Literally
Makes
Old
Out
Proportions
Temples
Which
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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
Another
Aspect
Business
Go
Good
Interests
Many
Me
Modern
Much
One Aspect
Relaxation
Relaxing
Seems
Terribly
Times
Today
Varied
Well
Which
Work
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