Ben Nicholson

“Abstraction is not a withdrawal from reality. It is a greater reality.”

“The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is both musical and architectural.”

“As I see it, painting and religious experience are the same thing.”

“The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.”

“For an artist, the only real 'school' is the work of other artists.”

“The deeper the experience of a work of art, the more religious it is.”

“What is important is to find a form that is your own, and then to develop it with intensity.”

“A painting is not a record of an experience, but an experience in itself.”

“Landscape has been the basis of my work. I have always been excited by it.”

“I believe that the real artist is a kind of channel.”