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
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.
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.
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.