Quotes by Arthur Erickson
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
- Arthur Erickson
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
- Arthur Erickson
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
- Arthur Erickson
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
- Arthur Erickson
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
- Arthur Erickson
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
- Arthur Erickson
We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.
- Arthur Erickson
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
- Arthur Erickson
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
- Arthur Erickson
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
- Arthur Erickson
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
- Arthur Erickson
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
- Arthur Erickson
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
- Arthur Erickson
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 celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
- Arthur Erickson
