As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

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.

Symbols, ” Langdon said, “in no way confirm the presence of their original creators.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.

I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.