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.
BEN NICHOLSONStudent 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.
More Ben Nicholson Quotes
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I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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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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I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
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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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I’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.
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I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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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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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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I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It’s not about stabbing each other in the back it’s about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
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