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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
— Arthur Erickson
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
— Arthur Erickson
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
— Arthur Erickson
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
— Arthur Erickson
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
— Arthur Erickson
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
— Arthur Erickson
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
— Arthur Erickson
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
— Arthur Erickson
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
— Arthur Erickson
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
— Arthur Erickson
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
— Arthur Erickson
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.
— Arthur Erickson
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.
— Arthur Erickson
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
— Arthur Erickson
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
— Arthur Erickson
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
— Arthur Erickson
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.
— Arthur Erickson
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
— Arthur Erickson
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
— Arthur Erickson
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
— Arthur Erickson
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
— Arthur Erickson
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
— Arthur Erickson
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
— Arthur Erickson
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
— Arthur Erickson
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
— Arthur Erickson
Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
— Arthur Erickson
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
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Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
— Arthur Erickson
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
— Arthur Erickson
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
— Arthur Erickson
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
— Arthur Erickson
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
— Arthur Erickson
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
— Arthur Erickson
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
— Arthur Erickson
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.
— Arthur Erickson
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
— Arthur Erickson
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
— Arthur Erickson
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
— Arthur Erickson
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
— Arthur Erickson
No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
— Arthur Erickson