49 Quotes by Arne Jacobsen

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out

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

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.

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

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.

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

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.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.