Quotes from Ben Nicholson

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.

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

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.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.