The lens is a tyranny.

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.

I was created to be destroyed.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.

Art is born in attention.

In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.

They [Muslims] are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so, then racist I must be - and happy and proud, to be so.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.