Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

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.

Youir're doing this wrong.

The need is the necessary want.

The Universe, is a woman - and she lives forever. 27.03.13

Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ....."As distance always doesn't ensure solutions

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.

(On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic."

Thank God for wisecracks.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.