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Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

Ben Nicholson

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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Addiction Ecstatic Work
Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
BEN NICHOLSON

Ideas Painting Religious
I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Design Done House
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’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Experts Hope Want
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Desire Experts Want
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
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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Feels Lasts Years
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
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Agnostic Believe Pluralism
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
You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best.
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Earth Heaven Vision
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
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Greed Guy Soul
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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Consumerism Corruption Soul
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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Agents Instruments Men
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 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

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