Love Artist British painter modern The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. - Ben Nicholson
Sense Politics 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
Enemy Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny. - Ben Nicholson
Ideas Thinking I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking. - Ben Nicholson
Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. - Karen Allen
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. - Karen Armstrong