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

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

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

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

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.

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.

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.