Arthur Erickson Quotes - Page 2

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Dream, Believe, Land

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Enemy, Architecture

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• 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.

  Arthur Erickson

  Dark, Feelings, May

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• 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

  Rome, Expansion, World

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Deeds Done, Action

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Men, Self

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

  Arthur Erickson

  Country, Artist, Technique

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Land, Use

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

  Arthur Erickson

  Appreciate, Towns, Medieval

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Brave New World, America

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Country, Team, Guilty

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Luxury, Easy

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Motivation, Thorough Knowledge, Today

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• No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Ecosystems, Fundamentals

  Arthur Erickson's address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• 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.

  Arthur Erickson

  Spiritual, Impact, Space

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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

  Arthur Erickson

  America, Building, Profession

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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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.

  Arthur Erickson

  Dream, Artist, California

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".

  Arthur Erickson

  Believe, Artist, Years

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Innovation, Aesthetic

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Gone, Modernism

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, High Heels, Typical

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• 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

  Years, Culture, Alive

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• 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

  Artist, Japan, Littles

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Energy, Building

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, America, Goal

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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