Kit Williams Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.”

“Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.”

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

“Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.”