I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems. Ben Nicholson More Quotes by Ben Nicholson More Quotes From Ben Nicholson 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 painting musical kind I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking. Ben Nicholson drawing ideas thinking 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 our-world long thinking Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea. Ben Nicholson painting religious ideas Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. Ben Nicholson abandoned reality art 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 regret girl school 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 shelter body book 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 breaking-down serious stuff 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 greed guy soul The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. Ben Nicholson consumerism corruption soul 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 temples architecture west I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction. Ben Nicholson ecstatic addiction 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 tyrants worst-enemy fall 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 vision earth heaven I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas. Ben Nicholson holy-grail mean ideas What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years. Ben Nicholson lasts feels years I'm not an expert, but I want to be. Ben Nicholson experts want I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House. Ben Nicholson design done house I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else. Ben Nicholson agents instruments men I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. Ben Nicholson addresses jerusalem cities
