It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

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.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

I don't regret the painful times

You may spend years being somebody to everybody, yet you can't find 60 seconds to be someone to someone else. Find the time today to be somebody's someone.

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.

My point is, people really don't change very much.

I'm fully aware that my vision of a European bicameral parliament can't be implemented tomorrow. I'm also not an integration fanatic.