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Facts about Arthur Erickson SummaryArthur Erickson is a famous Architect from Canada, he/she is still alive and was born June 14, 1924.Zodiac etc.He/she is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable. Our collection contains 52 quotes who is written / told by Arthur, under the main topic Art.Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: George Will, Khaleda Zia, Clive James, Tom Metzger, Robert F. Kennedy, Joe Namath, Willie Mays, Mike Ditka, Martin Yan, Didier Drogba, Øystein Stray Spetalen, Billy Zane, Robert Indiana, Whitfield Diffie, Twyla Tharp, Jim Rohn, Richard Scaife, Maria Cantwell, Rachel Corrie, Amy Lee Famous quotes by Arthur Erickson (52)  "Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them"
"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us"
"The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events"
"There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century"
"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"
"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom"
"The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself"
"There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications"
"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared"
"Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms"
"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist"
"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today"
"Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind"
"Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart"
"Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly"
"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process"
"This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world"
"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption"
"Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture"
"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own"
"Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression"
"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems"
"No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them"
"Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression"
"Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today"
"The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land"
"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts"
"The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before"
"There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization"
"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"
"God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit"
"In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect"
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