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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.

-Arne Jacobsen

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With A Painter Or A Sculptor, One

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.

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