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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.

Ben 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.
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Architecture Temple West
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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Feels Lasts Years
Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
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Ideas Painting Religious
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
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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Clients Pushing Quality
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
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
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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Body Book Shelter
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Experts Hope Want
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
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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Addiction Ecstatic Work
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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Greed Guy Soul
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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Agents Instruments Men
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
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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Beautiful Dream People
I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Design Done House

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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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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