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 NICHOLSONI haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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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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Realism’ has been abandoned in the search for reality: the ‘principal objective’ of abstract art is precisely this reality.
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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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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’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 deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
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I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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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’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.
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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 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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