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~ Arthur Erickson Quote
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote
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.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote
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.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote
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.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
~ Arthur Erickson Quote