Famous Quotes

"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

Arthur Erickson on Design

More quotes about Design

• "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

  Steve Jobs on Design

• "You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

  Walt Disney on Design

• "The artist in me cries out for design."

  Robert Frost on Design

• "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Design

• "Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

  Erma Bombeck on Design

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."