"The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning.……" — Arthur Erickson
"The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation."
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66 Quotes by Arthur Erickson
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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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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother…
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers…
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a…
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes…
— Seneca the Elder
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
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Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even…
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
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