I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

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.

It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.

Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.

I have a black belt in sarcasm, and my wit is like lightning.

I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

I'm not worried about repeating myself - I'm more worried that I'd just get bored.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.