47 Quotes by Ben Nicholson

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.

The music videos allow us to do whatever we want, but the budgets are always really tiny. The commercials have real dollars behind them.

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.

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.

I had to learn to see the world. I followed the teachers wherever they were and I didn't care about the institution, it was more about the person.

I’m not an expert, but I want to be.

I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

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

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.