Quotes by Theo Jansen - Page 1

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.
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Art
Engineering
Only
Between
Exist
Minds
Walls
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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.
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New Things
Nostalgic
Vegetation
Prefer
Exact
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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.
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Skeletons
Wind
Animals
Beaches
Herd
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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.
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Migration
Animals
Counter
Way Know More
Gives
More Or Less
Step
Turned
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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.
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Beach
Code
Combination
Numbers
Proportion
Range
Tubes
Animals
Works
Genetic
Walk
Leg
Smoothly
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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.
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Clouds
Fascinated
Little Things
Dreaming
Stimulate
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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.
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Abuse
Acceleration
Flow
Produce
Reproduction
Student
Meme
Mini
Printers
Virus
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I liked science very much. A science teacher in high school inspired me, and because of him, I began studying science at the university. But when I got there... well, the subject still attracted me a lot, but I had to do all these exams, and it was just like working in an office. I couldn't stand that.
Theo Jansen /
Science Teacher Me
Exams
Studying
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I think the Netherlands will become one big city at a point. It is inevitable when you live in a country with so many people. You cannot afford to leave nature as it is. Some people believe that the dunes should be left in their original state, but I think it's strange to let things become how they were 500 years ago.
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Inevitable
Netherlands
Afford
Big City
So Many People
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