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

Ben Nicholson

If you’re into architecture and you’re from the West, everything is hors d’oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you’re led there. You can’t escape it.
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Architecture Temple West
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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Agents Instruments Men
The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural… Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.
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Kind Musical Painting
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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Addiction Ecstatic Work
I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Design Done House
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’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
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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Consumerism Corruption Soul
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
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
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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Feels Lasts Years
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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Clients Pushing Quality
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 not an expert, but I want to be.
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Experts Hope Want
I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Design Done House
I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.
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Body Book Shelter

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

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