Arthur Erickson Quotes
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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.
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Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
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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.
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The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
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The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
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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.
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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
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Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
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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.
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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.