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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."
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"The great thing about redirecting is that if you miss the mark and miss your goal, you can simply change course. When you are heading down a certain path, and feel like you may be heading the wrong way, stop, turn back, redirect, or ask for directions."
"When we set up a goal for ourselves our body start to mobilize all its strength in one direction."
"Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction."
"My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things."
"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
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"The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control."
"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."
"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."
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