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

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.

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 his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

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 dog to catch the rabbit.

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 last for at least a thousand years.

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.

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

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.

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.

Novels are just very, very, very long lies. That is to say, you’ve got to get your story straight!

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty ihen happiness comes of itself.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

Good-looking people are always looking for other good-looking people.

Nothing is more precious than your baby.

The Incredibles was the best movie ever made. Ever. Made. BSTL.