Arthur Erickson Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• 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

  Art, Expression, Design

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Men, Self

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

• No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

  Arthur Erickson

  Dream, Artist, California

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

• After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

  Arthur Erickson

  Convincing Evidence, Space, Focus

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

• We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

  Arthur Erickson

  Fashion, Believe, Inspiration

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