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 arm always pointed south.

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.

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

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.

Jesus told His disciples that the “world, ” meaning the world system, the political and social order organized apart from God, will despise Christians.

...this two-way hatred. I don’t understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.

I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now.