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"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."
"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?"
"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."
"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west."
"In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us."
"I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form."
"Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center."
"The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years."
"Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land."
"As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot."
"The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising."
"If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have."
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