Typed letter to Mr Thornton at the Gulbenkian Foundation giving interim news of the Oramics Project.
partial quote:
"We see Oramics as a means of combining the "Two Cultures" Science and Art. We feel that this is a very important concept at a time when the two cultures appear to be drifting further and further apart - indeed a strange and senseless suspicion has grown up between them. We wish to show that science can assist the Arts without inducing, cold, calculating, lifeless, mechanical results. We also wish to show that machines, however complex they may be , have not of their own accord produced - and we believe they never will be able to produce - a work of Art which has that indefinable difference - the stroke of genius. This is a product which stems from an inner inspiration that we trust no machine will ever fathom. However, we feel that machines can provide new ways in which that inner inspiration can express itself; they can help to give a greater understanding of the medium and can aid the study, in minute detail, of the stimuli and sensations produced - for it is our belief that by a greater knowledge of the result we may better appreciate and respect the tremendous unknown - inspiration."