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.
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.
More Ben Nicholson Quotes
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I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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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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Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
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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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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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I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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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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What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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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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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 haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
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