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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."

Arne Jacobsen on Home

More quotes about Home

  • "Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

    Margaret Thatcher on Home

  • "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

    Benjamin Franklin on Home

  • "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

    Oliver Wendell Holmes on Home

  • "Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."

    Bill Cosby on Home

  • "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

    Robert Frost on Home

More quotes by Arne Jacobsen

  • "Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life."

  • "Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns."

  • "If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."

  • "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."

  • "I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly."

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