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I’m not an expert, but I want to be.

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
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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Addiction Ecstatic Work
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 haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Design Done House
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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Board Cutting Direct
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 see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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Agents Instruments Men
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
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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Clients Pushing Quality
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
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
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
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Desire Experts Want
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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Feels Lasts Years
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

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