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
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.
soul corruption consumerism
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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.
experts want
I'm not an expert, but I want to be.
art reality abandoned
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
cities jerusalem addresses
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.
uncles grandmother organization
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.
heaven vision earth
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.
greed guy soul
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.
book body shelter
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.
musical kind painting
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.
thinking ideas drawing
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
house design done
I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.
men agents instruments
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.