Kit Williams Quotes

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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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?
• In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south,…
• 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.
• 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…
• If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the…
• The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to…
• 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…
• The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched…
• 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…
• It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous…
• The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.
• The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
• The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

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