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Ben Nicholson

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I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.


— Ben Nicholson


#draw #i #ideas #interested #just

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.


— Ben Nicholson


#i #want

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.


— Ben Nicholson


#escape #everything #hors #into #led

MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has the money to do it. MTV is that for us.


— Ben Nicholson


#experienced #freedom #knows #lets #me

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.


— Ben Nicholson


#because #begin #break #deadly #down

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.


— Ben Nicholson


#buildings #egypt #grasp #greece #i

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.


— Ben Nicholson


#any #beast #boils #corruption #dante

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.


— Ben Nicholson


#culture #irish #large #love #part

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.


— Ben Nicholson


#been #gods #grandmother #how #i

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.


— Ben Nicholson


#clients #find #hard #pushing #quality






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Did you know about Ben Nicholson?

In 1937 he was one of the editors of Circle an influential monograph on constructivism. Nicholson and Winifred had three children: a son Jake in June 1927; a daughter Kate (who later also became a painter) in July 1929; and a son Andrew in September 1931.

Benjamin Lauder "Ben" Nicholson OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was a British painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief) landscape and still-life.

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