Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson
More from: Arthur Erickson
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. -
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. -
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. -
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. -
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
More quotes by Arthur Erickson
- With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
- 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.
- Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
- The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
- Today's 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.