My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

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.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

You and I are to be a true member of the provoked generation.

Till the day when I'll be going down that Long long trail with you.

The first one is always the hardest," he said. "The first?" "The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.

We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you’re not doing something about it, you’re doing something about it.

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

I say what other people won't.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

A jump lead walks into a bar. The barman says "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."