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
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.
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.
arranged best drawing life professors royal study
They arranged for me to go to The Royal Academy, to study with one of the best life drawing professors in the world. That's how I learned.
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.
mean journey egypt
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.