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"The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control."
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"Discipline is required in all human endeavours."
"As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage."
"You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it."
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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."
"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."
"The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising."
"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."
"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
"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."
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