Arne Jacobsen Quotes

I love architecture.

You cannot have adoration without being criticized.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine.

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.

Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.

Whenever you have a good idea, it's inevitable some people will criticize it and deny it. Some people will try to prove it's wrong.

Critics tend to praise as well as crucify you.

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

I like building.

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don't have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn't concern me.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.

Architecture is invention.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

I call architecture frozen music.

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.