"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything……" — Arthur Erickson
"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom."
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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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We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet…
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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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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the…
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I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a…
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Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
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The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the…
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You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
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Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the…
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A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint;…
— Emile Durkheim
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We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to…
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A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that…
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
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An artist must not feel under any constraint.
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