seismograph quotes

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

- Max Ernst
Quoted in Saranne  Alexandrian Surrealist  Art (1970).

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

- Ken Elton Kesey
Quoted in Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool- Aid  Acid Test (1968), ch.1.