"Realism' has been abandoned in the search for……" — Ben Nicholson
"Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality."
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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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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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