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Henry Ford1 quote
Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black. — Henry Ford · 1909J.G. Ballard1 quote
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinaesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status-all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido. — J.G. Ballard · 1970Philip C. Johnson1 quote
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of city architecture. — Philip C. Johnson · 1955Roland Barthes1 quote
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. — Roland Barthes · 1957Thomas Edison1 quote
The horseless vehicle is the coming wonder. — Thomas Edison · 1895