I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
BEN NICHOLSONThe corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
More Ben Nicholson Quotes
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I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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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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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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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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What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
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Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
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I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
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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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I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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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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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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