Top 64 Quotes by Arthur Erickson

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

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.

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.

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

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

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.

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.

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.

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