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Arne Jacobsen

"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change."

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"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change."

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Amber Hurdle

"Anyone that refuses to grow will remain in the past. It is a demand of life."

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"Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor."

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"The change the world needs is not in the hand of everyone who is alive. It is in the works of those who deliberately contribute to make it a better place."

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"You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying."

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"There are few things that will remain constant over the long run."

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"To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things."

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"No one on earth is "functionless". The problem we usually have is that functions of people are being displayed in the wrong positions! Change position!"

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"Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets."

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"We must become the change we want to see in the world."

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"I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there."

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"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."
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"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."
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"Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell."
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"I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost."
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"I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one."
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"But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. 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."
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"When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right."
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"That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another."
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"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."
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"Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment."
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