I'm fed up with being bossed around.

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.

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.

I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade.

But our highest objective should be that our children would repent from their sins, put their trust in Jesus Christ, and reflect the gospel to the world around them.

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were notable for their craft and sturdy spirituality.

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well.

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.