Famous Quotes

"The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."

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."