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"I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death."
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"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."
"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 started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot."
"You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art."
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