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

"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."

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

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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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