Which is more musical, a truck passing bya factory or a truck passing by a music school?

-Cage,John
Silence.

In manufacture and in handicrafts, the worker uses a tool; in the factory, he serves a machine.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  Das Kapital.

In the factory, we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

-Reston,James B(arrett)
Quoted in Andrew P Tobias Fire and Ice (1976), ch.8.

Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amount of effort.

-Schumpeter,Joseph Alois
  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, p.67.

I tremble in this factory of books. What love he must have lost to write so much.

-A'Ghobhainn
  After seeing an exhibit of SirWalter Scott's manuscripts.'At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival', collected in Selected Poems (1985).

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

-Walcott, Derek Alton
  Omeros, bk.6, ch.45, section 2.