Quotes by : Arne Jacobsen

The primary factor is proportions.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they....

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to....

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

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration?....

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks,....

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with....

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels....

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

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's....