A Quote by Arthur Erickson

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

Arthur Erickson

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Arthur Erickson
Canadian - Architect
June 14, 1924 - May 20, 2009

Why should I build an asset when I can buy it more cheaply than you can build it?

Ivan Glasenberg

I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.

Tamora Pierce

The only reason anyone would sell salt more cheaply than usual would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who laboured to produce it.

Paulo Coelho

Look how long it took to build the Freedom Tower, and we wanted that. It took 15 years.

Bill Burr

I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.

Russell Simmons

We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? We build the world in vain Unless the builders also grow.

Edwin Markham

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

Peter Gay

It's very hard to cheaply build anything significant in a multi-platform, mobile world.

Keith Teare

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Robert Hewison

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

Miguel Syjuco

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Larry Wall

Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.

David Hockney

A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write carelessly or suddenly, to add or insert suddenly or carelessly to or in the page. "To dash" comes from Middle English daschen, itself probably from Scandinavian-compare Danish daske, to beat, to strike. Ultimately the word is-rather obviously-echoic.

Eric Partridge

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.

Pope Pius XI

There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.