Top 64 Quotes by Arthur Erickson

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.

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

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

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.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

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

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.

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

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.