I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

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.

The flower drifted, light and open, gliding a path through still water like the faint stirrings of a dream.

Be resilient until you complete a task. Challenge yourself and never limit yourself. Stay humble, hopeful, patient, but never quit!

I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

I just wanted to get the message that God had put into my heart into another form, because I knew the print media would reach a different group of people.

Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.

You are the somewhere you are trying to get to.

And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.