Art Quote by Arthur Erickson Download Open image “Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.” — Arthur Erickson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art Building Aware Energy Building Energy Energy Contained Witness Witness Art
In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself. — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way. — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
“Putting art on the walls of your home or body is a very important decision to make, and one not to be taken lightly.… — Cary G. Weldy Copy Share Image
Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Energy is our most precious resource, for it is the means by which we transform our creative potential into meaningful action. — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
We're full of electricity, and the walls and floor of a building contain carbon - the same makeup as a video tape - and… — Peter James Copy Share Image
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design.… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
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… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image