Arne Jacobsen Quotes

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

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

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

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.