It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

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.

She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion.

Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down.

Failure is not in losing but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.

The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don’t really know what you’re going to get.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.