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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 Nicholson

I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Design Done House
I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
BEN NICHOLSON

Design Done House
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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Country Journey Mean
Realism’ has been abandoned in the search for reality: the ‘principal objective’ of abstract art is precisely this reality.
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Abandoned Art Reality
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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Feels Lasts Years
I’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.
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Drawing Ideas Thinking
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Experts Hope Want
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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Board Cutting Direct
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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Girl Regret School
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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Enemy Fall Tyrants Worst
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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Agents Instruments Men
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.
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Kind Musical Painting
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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Clients Pushing Quality
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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Addiction Ecstatic Work
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
BEN NICHOLSON

Desire Experts Want
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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Earth Heaven Vision

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.

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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.

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