Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

More Quotes by Arthur Erickson

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

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.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.