[The TARDIS, which is parked in an art gallery, is being critiqued by two visitors]
JCJohn Cleese
To me, one of the most curious things about this piece is its wonderful afunctionalism.
EBEleanor Bron
Yes, I see what you mean. Divorced from its function and seen purely as a piece of art, its structure of line and colour is curiously counterpointed by the redundant vestiges of its function.
JCJohn Cleese
And since it has no call to be here, the art lies in the fact that it is here.
[The Doctor unlocks the TARDIS and enters, followed by Romana and Duggan. The TARDIS dematerializes]
EBEleanor Bron
Exquisite. Absolutely exquisite.
More from this episode
All quotes from this episode →More Doctor Who quotes · These quotes come from Wikiquote's Doctor Who pages and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.