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Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become ones

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become ones entire life. – Arne Jacobsen

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But inspiration? – Thats when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? – and fortunately you havent. 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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I dont see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. – Arne Jacobsen

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You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests. – Arne Jacobsen

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A house is a machine for living in. – Le Corbusier

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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. – Maya Lin

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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Architecture doesnt come from theory. You dont think your way through a building. – Arthur Erickson

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