Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

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 have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write.

Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?

I know that I'm crazy. And that has made all the difference." From: Furiously Happy: A funny book about horrible things.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.

I know that I'm the happiest of lovers.

I talk out the lines as I write them.