I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
BEN NICHOLSONI started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
BEN NICHOLSONThe corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
BEN NICHOLSONPainting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
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 deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
BEN NICHOLSONI 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 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.
BEN NICHOLSONWe are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
BEN NICHOLSONI’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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 haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
BEN NICHOLSONI see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
BEN NICHOLSONI’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
BEN NICHOLSONWhat I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
BEN NICHOLSONI’m not an expert, but I want to be.
BEN NICHOLSONStudent 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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