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Arthur Erickson has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 a source…
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Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of…
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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 values existed…
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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 as if…
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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 as what…
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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
— William Shakespeare
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Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
— Johann Gottfried Seume
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Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward faith.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness…
— Bertrand Russell
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A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.
— John G. Lake
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Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this…
— Ruth Nanda Anshen
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Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so…
— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western…
— Arthur Erickson
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So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and…
— William Shakespeare
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However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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