"The primary factor is proportions."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Arne Jacobsen

#Design Quotes #Proportion Quotes

“When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin”
“I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be filled by the imagination. And imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.”
“I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.”
“Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.”

Source : Frederick Sommer, John Weiss, University of Delaware. Dept. of Art, Delaware Art Museum (1980). “Venus, Jupiter & Mars: the photographs of Frederick Sommer : an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum from April 27 through June 8, 1980”
“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”
“The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.”
“I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.”
“If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.”

Source : "Chrisette Michele: Unifying Music". Singersroom Interview, singersroom.com. June 18, 2007.

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