The primary factor is proportions.

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.

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

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.

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

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.

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.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

The primary factor is proportions.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

I think you can always learn lessons by the guys who came before you.

Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?

I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Well if everything stays the same forever you stop enjoying what youve got. And stop appreciating people.

It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

The way I look at it is, if you don't want somebody to know something, don't say it. If you don't want them to see you do something, don't do it.

Common sense is very uncommon.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

Everything is dangerous my dear fellow. If it wasnt so life wouldnt be worth living.