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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 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
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 started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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Addiction Ecstatic Work
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
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
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 haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Design Done House
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
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
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
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
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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Consumerism Corruption Soul
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
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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Agents Instruments Men

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