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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.

Ben Nicholson

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
I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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Grail Holy Ideas Mean
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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Agents Instruments Men
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
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
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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Clients Pushing Quality
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
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
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Desire Experts Want
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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Consumerism Corruption Soul
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
I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Design Done House
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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Country Journey Mean
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
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
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Experts Hope 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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