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I’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.

Ben Nicholson

I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
BEN NICHOLSON

Design Done House
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It’s not about stabbing each other in the back it’s about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
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Beautiful Dream People
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 haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
BEN NICHOLSON

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
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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Addiction Ecstatic Work
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
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Experts Hope Want
I’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.
BEN NICHOLSON

Drawing Ideas Thinking
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
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
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
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’m not an expert, but I want to be.
BEN NICHOLSON

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
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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