On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.

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.

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

Thinking is mind over matter.

Three years later and I’m still writing about you. I don’t know if that says more about you or I.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.

All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.