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 started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
More Ben Nicholson Quotes
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What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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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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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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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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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 just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.
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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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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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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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I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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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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Realism’ has been abandoned in the search for reality: the ‘principal objective’ of abstract art is precisely this reality.
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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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I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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