Top 26 Quotes by Arne Jacobsen

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

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.

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.

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.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

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

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

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.

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

The primary factor is proportions.