The 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 NICHOLSONVery 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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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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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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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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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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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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What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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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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Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
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I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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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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I’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.
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