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

The primary factor is proportions.
Arne Jacobsen

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Arne Jacobsen

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

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

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

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