top of page
Quote_1.png
Arne Jacobsen

"You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests."

Standard 
 Customized
"You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests."

Exlpore more Time quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

Explore more quotes by Arne Jacobsen

Quote_1.png
Arne Jacobsen
"In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture."
Quote_1.png
Arne Jacobsen
"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."
Quote_1.png
Arne Jacobsen
"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."
Quote_1.png
Arne Jacobsen
"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it."
Quote_1.png
Arne Jacobsen
"Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Arne Jacobsen
"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."
Quote_1.png
Arne Jacobsen
"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."
Quote_1.png
Arne Jacobsen
"And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture."
Quote_1.png
Arne Jacobsen
"I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio."
bottom of page