The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. – Arthur Erickson
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. – Arthur Erickson
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. – Arthur Erickson
Todays 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
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin