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.
BEN NICHOLSONVery rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
More Ben Nicholson Quotes
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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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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 deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
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We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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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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I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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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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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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I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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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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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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