"God's designs may be frequent justification for our……" — Arthur Erickson
"God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit."
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Arthur Erickson
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66 Quotes by Arthur Erickson
Arthur Erickson has 66 quotes on this site.
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and…
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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
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The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever…
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The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
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No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
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The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear…
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Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
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Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much…
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Well begun is half done.
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