Ben Nicholson on drawing
Ben Nicholson24 quotes“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’m not an expert, but I want to be.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson 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.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson 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.
Ben NicholsonBen 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.
Ben NicholsonBen 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.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson 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.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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Thoughts on a tapestry. Colour or black and white. A brush, a pen, A flash of light. Ideas flowing soon, about to take flight.
Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
Laura CleggLaura Clegg
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
Adam GopnikAdam Gopnik This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
Edvard MunchEdvard Munch A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.
Bobby SealeBobby Seale If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
Alberto GiacomettiAlberto Giacometti I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
Alberto GiacomettiAlberto Giacometti When I make my drawings… the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.
Alberto GiacomettiAlberto Giacometti I’ve been through a lot of ups and downs. I’ve been on both sides of it all, I guess. So there’s not one specific event or thought that I’m dealing with or drawing from necessarily.
Aaron BrunoAaron Bruno Pure drawing is an abstraction.
Paul CezannePaul Cezanne
