I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

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.

When bad things happen or you don't get your own way, if you can open your heart to compassion instead of shunting it down in anger, you're going to create more light.

As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.

I've never disclosed for whom I'm voting.

I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.

What we prepare for is what we shall get