Top 64 Quotes by Arthur Erickson

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

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

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

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.

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.

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.

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

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