Arthur Erickson

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization. ”

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. ”

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. ”

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. ”

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. ”

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit. ”