Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
BEN NICHOLSONThe corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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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 just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.
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I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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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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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.
BEN NICHOLSONIf 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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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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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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We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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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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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 NICHOLSONStudent 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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I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
BEN NICHOLSONI’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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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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I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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