Soul Artist British painter modern The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. - Ben Nicholson
School World Life When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life. - Ben Nicholson
Dreams People Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness. - Ben Nicholson
Body 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. - Ben Nicholson
Architecture Vision You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. - Ben Nicholson
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear. - Erykah Badu
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. - Mary Wollstonecraft
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. - Plato