You can just drift unhappily towards thi...

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

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Other quotes by Ben Nicholson

Soul

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

Work

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

- Ben Nicholson

Want

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

- 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

Years

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

- 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

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