The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

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.