Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
Quote by Arthur Erickson
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Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
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Arthur Erickson Quotes
- The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
- The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
- Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
- 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.
- There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
- The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
- Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
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