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I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

Ben Nicholson

I’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.
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Drawing Ideas Thinking
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
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
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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Consumerism Corruption Soul
I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Design Done House
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
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Agnostic Believe Pluralism
I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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Grail Holy Ideas Mean
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
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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Agents Instruments Men
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Experts Hope Want
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
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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Addiction Ecstatic Work
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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Breaking Down Serious Stuff
I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Design Done House
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Desire Experts Want
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

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