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Ben Nicholson Quotes
- Name:
- Ben Nicholson
- Type:
- Artist
- Nationality:
- British
- Birth day:
- April 10
- Birth year:
- 1894
- 1
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. Ben Nicholson
- 2
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 radicalizing the way we think about our world. Ben Nicholson
- 3
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. Ben Nicholson
- 4
I had to learn to see the world. I followed the teachers wherever they were and I didn't care about the institution, it was more about the person. Ben Nicholson
- 5
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. Ben Nicholson
- 6
I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House. Ben Nicholson
- 7
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else. Ben Nicholson
- 8
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction. Ben Nicholson
- 9
I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas. Ben Nicholson
- 10
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking. Ben Nicholson
- 11
I'm not an expert, but I want to be. Ben Nicholson
- 12
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 Nicholson
- 13
It's difficult to find a house with no map at 3 o'clock in the morning in a foreign country and where you don't speak the language. Ben Nicholson
- 14
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 that makes any sense. Ben Nicholson
- 15
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 Nicholson
- 16
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. Ben Nicholson
- 17
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. Ben Nicholson
- 18
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. Ben Nicholson
- 19
They arranged for me to go to The Royal Academy, to study with one of the best life drawing professors in the world. That's how I learned. Ben Nicholson
- 20
Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone else's boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here. Ben Nicholson
- 21
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients. Ben Nicholson
- 22
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. Ben Nicholson