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
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.
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.
country difficult foreign house map morning speak
It's difficult to find a house with no map at 3 o'clock in the morning in a foreign country and where you don't speak the language.
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.
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.