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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

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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Agents Instruments Men
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
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
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
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
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
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 haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Design Done House
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’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Desire Experts Want
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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Feels Lasts Years
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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Clients Pushing Quality
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Experts Hope Want
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 started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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Addiction Ecstatic Work
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

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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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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