31 Quotes by Rube Goldberg

Naturally, I’m conservative; I’m a Republican. I always was.

And, uh, I’ve got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

I didn’t have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter’s house every Friday night and took lessons.

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don’t believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber’s itch – terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.