47 Quotes by Ben Nicholson

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

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.

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.

Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

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.