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  • Architect
  • 1924 - 2009
  • 71 quotes

Arthur Erickson, an architect (1924 - 2009), is quoted 71 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Artist, Architecture, Art and Cultures.

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The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

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

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

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

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

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

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

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

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

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

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

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

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely...

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

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

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

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

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

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