Arthur Erickson Quotes

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. - 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 have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. - 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

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