I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

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.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.

May you find the joy, hope and love of existence.

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

You have to have passion for everything you do, and you've got to look at the positive side.

Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

Kindness in words creates confidence.

Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.