"It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over."

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

Arthur Erickson

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“My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.”
“Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.”
“I want you to understand the words. I want you taste the words. I want you to love the words. Because the words are important. But they're only words. You leave them on the paper and you take the thoughts and put them into your mind and then you as an actor recreate them, as if the thoughts had suddenly occurred to you.”
“Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape”
“The point of life is not to get anywhereâ€”it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. The point of life therefore is to createâ€”who and what you are, and then to experience that.”
“There's a path from your HEART to mine.”
“How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?”
“If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.”

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