Ben Nicholson Quotes

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• I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
• 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…
• I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
• The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
• Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
• At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
• 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…
• I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
• The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who…
• 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…
• I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.
• I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
• I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.
• I'm not an expert, but I want to be.
• What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
• When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I…

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