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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.

Ben Nicholson

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best.
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Earth Heaven Vision
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 started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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Addiction Ecstatic Work
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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Feels Lasts Years
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 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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Desire Experts 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
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
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
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
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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Consumerism Corruption Soul
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
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

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 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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