If youre into architecture and youre from the West, everything is hors doeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately youre led there. You cant escape it. – Ben Nicholson
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 its best. – Ben Nicholson
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but Im not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. – Ben Nicholson
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. Its not about stabbing each other in the back its about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness. – Ben Nicholson
Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year — and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. – Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)