"Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing.……" — Ben Nicholson
"Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea."
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27 Quotes by Ben Nicholson
Ben Nicholson has 27 quotes on this site.
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I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
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Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur,…
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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 Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
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Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that…
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At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for…
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Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in…
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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…
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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,…
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We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that…
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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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More Experience Quotes
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
— Hannah Arendt
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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