I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

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.

I don’t know how – it is a question of process

Do whatever you have determined to do.

Life's too short. Live with more courage. Give and receive from the heart. Inspire your world.

No matter who you are, you have a giant self.

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

My stepfather was a very nasty individual.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

Innovation is saying 'no' to 1,000 things.