Mechanical Precision Quotes

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.

I think F1, ultimately, is man and machine at its absolute limit. It is modern day chariot racing.

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.