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I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

Ben Nicholson

Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
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Board Cutting Direct
I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Design Done House
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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Agents Instruments Men
When I left school I went on trip around the world – I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It’s probably one of my big regrets in life.
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Girl Regret School
I’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.
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Drawing Ideas Thinking
Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
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Enemy Fall Tyrants Worst
Realism’ has been abandoned in the search for reality: the ‘principal objective’ of abstract art is precisely this reality.
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Abandoned Art Reality
Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
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Ideas Painting Religious
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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Feels Lasts Years
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Desire Experts Want
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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Clients Pushing Quality
I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Design Done House
Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you’re able to grasp what things mean.
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Country Journey Mean
I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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Grail Holy Ideas Mean
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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Consumerism Corruption Soul
Satire is fascinating stuff. It’s deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it’s the only thing that makes any sense.
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Breaking Down Serious Stuff

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

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