I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
BEN NICHOLSONWhen 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’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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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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Realism’ has been abandoned in the search for reality: the ‘principal objective’ of abstract art is precisely this reality.
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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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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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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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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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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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Satire is fascinating stuff. It’s deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it’s the only thing that makes any sense.
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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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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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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 just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.
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