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
addiction ecstatic
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
soul corruption consumerism
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
quality pushing clients
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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.
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.
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.
believe pluralism agnostic
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
experts want
I'm not an expert, but I want to be.
girl regret school
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.
years lasts feels
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
art reality abandoned
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.