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.
BEN NICHOLSONWhat I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
More Ben Nicholson Quotes
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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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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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I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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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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We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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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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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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I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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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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What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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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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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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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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Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
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