People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

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.

The Women Who Can Wait For Her ManTill Dawn, Without Any Argument, Are Priceless.

I...think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so.

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.

I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.

i really like kingdom hearts its like the best book ever