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Ben Nicholson Quotes
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 Quotes
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but Im not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
I had to learn to see the world. I followed the teachers wherever they were and I didnt care about the institution, it was more about the person. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
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 Quotes
I havent done any building designs since the Loaf House. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
Im interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
Im just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: thats my way of thinking. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
Im not an expert, but I want to be. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
If youre into architecture and youre from the West, everything is hors doeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately youre led there. You cant escape it. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
Its difficult to find a house with no map at 3 oclock in the morning in a foreign country and where you dont speak the language. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has the money to do it. MTV is that for us. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. Its not about stabbing each other in the back; its about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
Satire is fascinating stuff. Its deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because its the only thing that makes any sense. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where youre able to grasp what things mean. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
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 Quotes
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
The latest page Ive been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Whos indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
The music videos allow us to do whatever we want, but the budgets are always really tiny. The commercials have real dollars behind them. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
They arranged for me to go to The Royal Academy, to study with one of the best life drawing professors in the world. Thats how I learned. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
When I left school I went on trip around the world-I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. Its probably one of my big regrets in life. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
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 its best. - Ben Nicholson Quotes
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