Quotes by Kit Williams - Page 1

Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.
Kit Williams / Author
Muse
Lady
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Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?
Kit Williams / Author
Afternoon
Practicals
Wednesday
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The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.
Kit Williams / Author
Dog
Goal
Rabbits
Unattainable
Chase
Material
Rabbit
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I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.
Kit Williams / Author
Consuming
Component
Each Individual
Piece
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The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.
Kit Williams / Author
Submit
Hoop
Jump
Remind
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The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
Kit Williams / Author
Dog
Painting
Rabbits
Feature
Hoop
Rabbit
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Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.
Kit Williams / Author
Calculus
Inventor
Newton
Differential
Tale
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She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.
Kit Williams / Author
Life Death Living
Hoop
Jump
Succumb
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You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
Kit Williams / Author
Art
Ambition
Beautiful
Engineering
Confound
Piece
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The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
Kit Williams / Author
Religion
Advertising
Ancient
Contemporary
Contemporary Society
Engine
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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.
Kit Williams / Author
Advertising
Instinct
Intuition
Needs
Want
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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.
Kit Williams / Author
East
Pointing
Simple
West
Chariot
Direction
North
Practical
Terms
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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.
Kit Williams / Author
Different
People
Years
Done Me People
Attempts
Chariot
Different People
Me Looking People
Reconstruct
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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.
Kit Williams / Author
Careers
Clock
Hands
Looks
Face Me Look
Center
Designed
Face Look Me
Occurred
Several
Suddenly
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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.
Kit Williams / Author
Book
Character
Divided
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Keys
Muse
Sections
Leads
Tale
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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.
Kit Williams / Author
New York
Home
Knowing
Pleasure
Thousand
Thousand Years
Chariot
Collector
Purchased
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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.
Kit Williams / Author
Bored
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Ideas
Writing
Lots
Photographs
Planned
Quickly
Scientific
Tale
Treatise
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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.
Kit Williams / Author
Men
Hands
Wheels
Arm
Original
Cart
Item
Platform
Pointed
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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.
Kit Williams / Author
Circles
Dog
Impossible
Interconnected
Never Ending
Rabbits
Symbolic
Catch
Circle
Closely
Simply
Rabbit
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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 inventors, a dog and a rabbit.
Kit Williams / Author
Dog
Moon
Rabbits
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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.
Kit Williams / Author
Blindness
Calling
Denied
Distraction
Later In Life
Madness
Tenacious
Candles
Defied
More And More
Presence
Refusing
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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.
Kit Williams / Author
Emperor
Feet
Sat
Way
Would Be
Drive
Below
Chariot
Designed
Differential
Directly
Gearing
Noticed
Spare
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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.
Kit Williams / Author
Beautiful
Constellations
Hair
Night
Pale
Perfect
Perfect Night
Once
Face
Came
Still
Fell
Gown
Her
Lady
Reached
Soft
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The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.
Kit Williams / Author
Form
Handle
Pointing
Rabbits
Significant
Meant
Carved
Chariot
Extended
Rabbit
Wherever
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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.
Kit Williams / Author
Work
Alive
Artist
Parting
Thinking
Work Difficult Find
Although
Artists
Case
Chariot
Sold
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