Jørn Utzon Quotes

• I like to be on the edge of the possible.

  Jørn Utzon

  Edges

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• I have made a sculpture … you will never be finished with it – when you pass around it or see it against the sky… something new goes on all the time… together with the sun, the light and the clouds, it makes a living thing.

  Jørn Utzon

  Sky, Clouds, Light

  Jørn Utzon, Christian Norberg-Schulz (1980). “Sydney Opera House: Sydney, Australia, 1957-73”

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• There is a rumour that I can't draw and never could. This is probably because I work so much with models. Models are one of the most beautiful design tools, but I still do the finest drawings you can imagine.

  Jørn Utzon

  Beautiful, Drawing, Design

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• And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence. We had somehow understood and felt that all the musicians who would come to the House later on, that all the singers, the big artists, were striving for excellence in their life and we thought a house for them, there’s no limit to the excellence it should have because it should match their strive for perfection

  Jørn Utzon

  Artist, Should Have, Perfection

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