I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
BEN NICHOLSONI haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
BEN NICHOLSONThe corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
BEN NICHOLSONThe kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural… Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.
BEN NICHOLSONI’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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.
BEN NICHOLSONI deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
BEN NICHOLSONPainting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
BEN NICHOLSONWhat I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
BEN NICHOLSONI see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
BEN NICHOLSONWe are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
BEN NICHOLSONVery rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
BEN NICHOLSONRealism’ has been abandoned in the search for reality: the ‘principal objective’ of abstract art is precisely this reality.
BEN NICHOLSONIf 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 NICHOLSONI started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
BEN NICHOLSONAny 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 NICHOLSONYou 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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