Top 64 Quotes by Arthur Erickson

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.

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.

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

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

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

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

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

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.