"Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture."

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

Arthur Erickson

#Art Quotes #Light Quotes #Energy Quotes

“Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.”
“I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.”
“A few more years shall roll, A few more seasons come; And we shall be with those that rest, Asleep within the tomb. A few more storms shall beat On this wild rocky shore; And we shall be where tempests cease, And surges swell no more. A few more struggles here, A few more partings o'er, A few more toils, a few more tears, And we shall weep no more. Then, O my Lord, prepare My soul for that blest day; Oh, wash me in Thy precious blood, And take my sins away.”
“Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.”
“For instance, in group therapy, I'll have people stand up, show off, give a speech about themselves as though they've just died and have to give a eulogy. Even with this explicit permission - even an order - to say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.”
“I'm saddest when I sing.”

Source : Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.59
“Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”
“Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.”

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