Arthur Erickson Quotes

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

Arthur Erickson

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• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Believe
  • History
  • Struggle

• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Hard Work

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Look

• I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Friend
  • Best

• You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Work
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfectionist
  • Self-Critical

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.

  

  Halsey
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Better

• When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • You
  • Decision
  • Forgive

• I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • College
  • Years
  • Gone

• If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Conflict
  • Scripture
  • Then

• Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Children
  • History
  • Throne

• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World
  • Exercise
  • Philanthropy

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• I didn't choose acting. The universe did.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Universe
  • Acting
  • Choose

• An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • People
  • Art

• Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

  

  Alcuin
  • World
  • Heart
  • Art

• Homosexuals in Russia live in peace, work, are promoted, receive national awards for their achievements in science, art or any other sphere, medals are awarded to them, I have awarded them myself.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Art
  • Achievement
  • Homosexual

• I loved English at school and realised I would enjoy studying plays. I got into Royal Holloway. They had a little studio theatre where we put on plays, and that's what I realised I wanted to do. So from there, I went to the Old Vic theatre school to learn how to do it properly.

  

  Mark Strong
  • School
  • English
  • Theatre

• Maybe that's what life was. You zigged and you zagged and zigged and zagged some more.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Life
  • Zigged

• 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