"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."

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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."

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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."

Work

"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."

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"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."

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"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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"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."

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"The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising."

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"You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art."

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"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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"The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals."

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"He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles."

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