- Tim Jenison: There's also this modern idea that art and technology must never meet - you know, you go to school for technology or you go to school for art, but never for both... And in the Golden Age, they were one and the same person.
- Philip Steadman: Using Tim's device, it isn't easy, but somehow it does turn you into a machine... You become a machine. Was Vermeer a machine? Maybe Vermeer was strong-minded enough to think, "I'll become a machine".
- Tim Jenison: Took me about half an hour to learn how to operate a paintbrush.
- Martin Mull: Good for you, it took me 40 years.
- Penn Jillette: Tim's been weightless in an astronaut-training plane and he arranged for me to try it, too. I vomited into my own hair.
- Tim Jenison: I tend to build things until they're just barely good enough, and sometimes that envelope gets exceeded.
- Natalie Jenison: So if anything falls askew, your painting's in no danger, is that correct?
- Tim Jenison: No, I wouldn't say that... But, you know, I can always start over.