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Realism’ has been abandoned in the search for reality: the ‘principal objective’ of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Ben Nicholson

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

Desire Experts Want
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.
BEN NICHOLSON

Earth Heaven Vision
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
BEN NICHOLSON

Agnostic Believe Pluralism
Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
BEN NICHOLSON

Board Cutting Direct
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
BEN NICHOLSON

Clients Pushing Quality
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.
BEN NICHOLSON

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.
BEN NICHOLSON

Breaking Down Serious Stuff
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
BEN NICHOLSON

Consumerism Corruption Soul
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
BEN NICHOLSON

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.
BEN NICHOLSON

Country Journey Mean
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.
BEN NICHOLSON

Girl Regret School
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
I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
BEN NICHOLSON

Grail Holy Ideas Mean
I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
BEN NICHOLSON

Design Done House
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

Greed Guy Soul
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
BEN NICHOLSON

Addiction Ecstatic Work

Realism’ has been abandoned in the search for reality: the ‘principal objective’ of abstract art is precisely this reality.

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