Arne Jacobsen Quotes

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

I am but an architectural composer.

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

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

I enjoy finding a low subject and bringing it up high. I think with strong technique, you can glamorize certain things. You can make the imagery sharper, rounder, and basically better looking.

The more I learn and grow, the more I feel fulfilled, and even if I'm shooting a commercial for a car or a computer, I try to deliver a filmmaker's point of view where I can learn from the experience. Then I really enjoy it.

I have always tried to put content in my work. It is a consistent challenge.