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.

In 1937 he was one of the editors of Circle an influential monograph on constructivism. Nicholson and Winifred had three children: a son Jake in June 1927; a daughter Kate (who later also became a painter) in July 1929; and a son Andrew in September 1931.

Benjamin Lauder "Ben" Nicholson OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was a British painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief) landscape and still-life.