#sm

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#architecture #basis #enemy #necessary #rationalism

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#businessman #haven #i #know #life

I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan. ↗

— Pat Boone

#backed #because #best #caused #causes

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

#again #became #convincing #descent #design

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

— Arthur Erickson

#build #builders #carelessly #cheaply #eventually

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#been #management #materialism #never #north

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#constraints #euphoric #everything #freedom #gone

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#become #begin #change #culture #cultures

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. ↗

— Robert Bork

#believe #classes #highly #influential #intellectual

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. ↗

— Frank Borman

#capitalism #christianity #hell #like #without