"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."

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

Arthur Erickson

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“I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It's hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don't rest until I achieve something.”
“I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.”
“The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.”
“Myrnin: "There is no drama so great as that of a teenage girl." Claire: "Except yours.”
“I can't sit still for 10 minutes.”
“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
“The compelling argument is on the side of homosexuals. We're Americans. We just want to be treated like everybody else. That is a compelling argument. And to deny that, you've got to have a very strong argument on the other side. And the other side hasn't been able to do anything but thump the Bible ... I support civil unions, I always have. All right, the gay marriage thing, I don't feel that strongly about it one way or the other.”
“Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.”

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