Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

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.

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.

I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed.