What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
BEN NICHOLSONSatire 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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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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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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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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We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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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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I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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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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I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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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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Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
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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’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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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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Realism’ has been abandoned in the search for reality: the ‘principal objective’ of abstract art is precisely this reality.
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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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