Top 64 Quotes by Arthur Erickson

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

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.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.

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

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.