As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.

The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.

Government should protect people and regulate corporations, not protect corporations and regulate people.

Put in the time. To position yourself as an expert, practice, apply, experiment, volunteer, and work within your area of knowledge to deepen your own understanding as you build real-life experience.

Hope is the anchor of the soul the stimulus to action and the incentive to achievement.

The Russians are the dirtiest players I’ve ever seen.

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.

When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.