Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea. — Ben Nicholson Ideas Copy Share Image
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's… — Ben Nicholson Break Copy Share Image
You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of:… — Ben Nicholson Architecture Copy Share Image
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back… — Ben Nicholson Beautiful Copy Share Image
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. — Ben Nicholson Addresses Copy Share Image
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… — Ben Nicholson Architecture Copy Share Image
MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want… — Ben Nicholson Client Copy Share Image
Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where… — Ben Nicholson Able Copy Share Image
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. — Ben Nicholson British Copy Share Image
The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this… — Ben Nicholson Abstract Copy Share Image
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson Abandoned Copy Share Image
Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through… — Ben Nicholson Boards Copy Share Image
I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas. — Ben Nicholson Holy Copy Share Image
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the… — Ben Nicholson Beast Copy Share Image
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years. — Ben Nicholson Feels Copy Share Image
When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a… — Ben Nicholson Around the world Copy Share Image
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems. — Ben Nicholson Agnostic Copy Share Image
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking. — Ben Nicholson Certain Copy Share Image
I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made,… — Ben Nicholson Body Copy Share Image
The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture. — Ben Nicholson British Copy Share Image
Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just… — Ben Nicholson Dreams Copy Share Image
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long.… — Ben Nicholson Architecture Copy Share Image
