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"I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming."
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"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."
"There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and the future loses meaning. There is only the Present, which means that two of the three Aalim are surplus to requirements. And then there are those of us who are trapped in yesterdays, in the memory of a lost love, or a childhood home, or a dreadful crime. And some people live only for a better tomorrow; for them the past ceases to exist."
"Twelve minutes. I can give you that."
"We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words 'Too Late'."
"We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
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"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
"The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising."
"You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art."
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