Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

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.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

I have a sexy side to me, but it's more of a fun sexy.

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.

Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.

If I could never put out an album in my life, I could just put out mixtapes. The music got to be out there somehow.