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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.
Arne Jacobsen



Biography
Author Profession: Architect
Nationality: Danish
Born: February 11, 1902
Died: March 24, 1971

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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.
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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

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

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

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Actual, Art, Aware, Draw, Fully, Fun, Great, I Think, Long, Nothing, Paint, Right, Sketches, Think, Travel, Which
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Actual, Art, Aware, Draw, Fully, Fun, Great, Long, Nothing, Paint, Right, Think, Travel, Which
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