"Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression."

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

Arthur Erickson

#Art Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Expression Quotes

“You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually happening.”
“To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.”
“Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.”
“The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.”

Source : Nikki Sixx (2007). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.176, Simon and Schuster
“If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.”
“In all of America, there is no more promising an urban area for revitalization than your own Over-the-Rhine. When I look at that remarkably untouched, expansive section of architecturally uniform structures, unmarred by clashing modern structures, I see in my mind the possibility for a revived district that literally could rival similar prosperous and heavily visited areas.”
“The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.”
“The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.”

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