Quote by Arne Jacobsen
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. - Arne Jacobse

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

Other quotes by Arne Jacobsen

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. – Arne Jacobsen

Category:
architecture
Read Quote

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. – Arne Jacobsen

Category:
architecture
Read Quote

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

Category:
Home
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
architecture
category

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. – Arne Jacobsen

Category:
architecture

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. – Arthur Erickson

Category:
architecture

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

Category:
architecture

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. – Minoru Yamasaki

Category:
architecture

Random Quotes

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isnt about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes. – Hollis Stacy

Category:
Attitude

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Category:
great

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature. – Jane Welsh Carlyle

Category:
Sadness

If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. – Andrew Fletcher

Category:
Singing