Ben Nicholson
Ben Nicholson
Benjamin Lauder "Ben" Nicholson, OMwas a British painter of abstract compositions, landscape and still-life...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth10 April 1894
temples west architecture
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.
client freedom knows lets money mtv serving
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.
bones built mammoth
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.
allow behind budgets dollars music videos whatever
The music videos allow us to do whatever we want, but the budgets are always really tiny. The commercials have real dollars behind them.
soul corruption consumerism
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
quality pushing clients
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
beautiful dream people
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.
thinking our-world long
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.
cutting boards direct
Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
culture satire british
The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
mean ideas holy-grail
I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
fall worst-enemy vision
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.
addiction ecstatic
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
believe pluralism agnostic
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.