Top 40 Ben Nicholson Quotes
#1. The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
Ben Nicholson
#2. Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
Ben Nicholson
#3. Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
Ben Nicholson
#4. I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
Ben Nicholson
#5. He had little time for formal lecturing or even for supervising Ph.D students at the California Institute of Technology where he worked.
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#6. 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
#7. The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
Ben Nicholson
#8. The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural ... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.
Ben Nicholson
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.
George Grosz
#12. We have great respect for Canada and Britain as well, and if they start shifting policies with regards to marijuana, it simply increases the rumblings in this country that we ought to re-examine our policy.
Asa Hutchinson
#13. Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
George Jackson
#14. 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
#15. I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.
Ben Nicholson
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.
Ben Nicholson
#20. What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
Ben Nicholson
#21. Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win.
Whitney Gaskell
#22. 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
#23. I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
Ben Nicholson
#24. From the warmth of her fondness for her horse she constructed a fragile and changeable thing that almost resembled courage. She hoped it would be enough.
Kristin Cashore
#25. 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
#26. 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. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.
Ben Nicholson
#27. I have always wondered why the movie industry was so firmly persuaded that the original author could be of no possible help in the case of a remake or any other change in a work.
Preston Sturges
#28. 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
#29. I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.
Ben Nicholson
#30. I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
Ben Nicholson
#31. Did I imagine all this? People are shooting at me! My job blew up, and I just watched myself exit my own room! This has been one day I will never forget!
D.W. Beam
#32. As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.
Marie Lu
#33. We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
Ben Nicholson
#34. 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
#35. I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
Ben Nicholson
#36. I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
Ben Nicholson
#38. Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
Ben Nicholson
#39. I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
Namie Amuro
#40. It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with ... Sir Ben Kingsley.
Aaron Eckhart
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