Arthur Erickson Quotes

Canadian - Architect | June 14, 1924 - May 20, 2009

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Arthur Erickson

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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

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Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

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Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

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No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

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No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

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Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

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Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

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