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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.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson 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.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson 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.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson 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.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson 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 NicholsonBen Nicholson 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 NicholsonBen Nicholson Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson 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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