Arthur Erickson Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.”

“After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.”

“The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.”

“There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.”