I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
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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What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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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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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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We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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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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I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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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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I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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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 see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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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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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 haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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