Arthur Erickson Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Attitude, Artist, Order

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Culture, Exploitation

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

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Japan, Europe

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

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• 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

  Artist, Likes, Responsible

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Quiet Voice, Way

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• Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths but the followers of that dubious client, the developer, who has little patience with the art of architecture, the fine detail and obscure promise, which can upset his financial activity.

  Arthur Erickson

  Doe, Spirit, Architecture

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

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• 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

  Art, Expression, Design

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

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• 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...

  Arthur Erickson

  Attitude, Artist, Civilization

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

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• This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Culture, World

  "Atheists, Agnostics, Progressive Minds: Busy Bacteria on A Speck of Dust". Book by John D. Cannon, September 29, 2010.

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, America, Management

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• 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.

  Arthur Erickson

  Men, Civilization, Preoccupation

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• We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Choices, Research

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• Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

  Arthur Erickson

  Entrepreneur, Today, Lasts

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

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Japan, Europe

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

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• We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

  Arthur Erickson

  Fashion, Believe, Inspiration

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