Theo Jansen Quotes

#1. The world is coming to an end in 1950.

Henry Adams

#2. The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth.

Turcois Ominek

#3. The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.

Theo Jansen

#4. The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of lengths, the animals walk smoothly. You could say that this range of numbers is their genetic code.

Theo Jansen

#5. London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience.

Neil MacGregor

#6. For we die every day; oblivion thrives 520 Not on dry thighbones but on blood-ripe lives, And our best yesterdays are now foul piles Of crumpled names, phone numbers and foxed files.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.

Vusi Mahlasela

#8. Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things.

Theo Jansen

#9. Better to have rarely loved and hardly lost, than ever to have loved at all. Better to be safe than sorry, better to stay out of the kitchen if you don't want to get burned

Charlotte Stein

#10. In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin and Scheveningen.

Theo Jansen

#11. What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?

David Chalmers

#12. Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Rudolf Arnheim

#13. Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

Mara Wilson

#14. I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.

Theo Jansen

#15. The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student's brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their reproduction. For two years, this reproduction fell into a flow acceleration. Now, 3D printers produce walking mini Strandbeests.

Theo Jansen

#16. Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

Robertson Davies

#17. It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

Jeff Lindsay

#18. Be an instrument of peace, not a preacher of hate.

Debasish Mridha

#19. The results are in and the cell phone has become the most isruptive aspect of work and everyday life. With more than four fifths of the population sporting these little gadgets, it's now taken as a given that any part of your day is subject to disruption.

Jeff Davidson

#20. I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don't have to eat ... eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.

Theo Jansen