I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

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.

God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a conqueror!

Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow.

A novel is a writer's rant disguised as entertainment...

I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.

It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.