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
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.
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.
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.
cities jerusalem addresses
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.
religious ideas painting
Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
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.
stuff serious breaking-down
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
thinking ideas drawing
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
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.