I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

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.

Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.

Negativity is like being stung constantly by a thousand bees. At first it’s really annoying, but after a few more stings it becomes toxic.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

I've never had any problems with women. Having been one of the world's greatest womanizers they've probably had more problems with me.

You can never go wrong with kindness.

Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

I get to kind of pretend I'm going to play baseball. I get to work out and do all the stuff that was part of baseball. I just don't get to play.