Top 24 Quotes by Ben Nicholson

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

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.

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

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.