Logo
Quote by Arthur Erickson
Todays developer is a poor substitute for the committed entreprene

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

Other quotes by 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

Category:
History
Author
Arthur Erickson
Read Quote

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

Category:
architecture
Author
Arthur Erickson
Read Quote

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

Category:
Attitude
Author
Arthur Erickson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
architecture
category

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country. – Bob Barr

Category:
architecture

Each new situation requires a new architecture. – Jean Nouvel

Category:
architecture

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. – Thom Mayne

Category:
architecture

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. – Julia Morgan

Category:
architecture

Random Quotes

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Beauty

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the publics imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars. – Paul Davies

Category:
Future

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. – Steven Brust

Category:
Fear
[I]f any one had asked what gifts she desired most, she would have answered with a look more pathetic than any shivering child had given her: “I want the sound of a loving voice; the touch of a friendly hand.” – Louisa May Alcott, “Seamstress,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873

Category:
Relationships