The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.

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 only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.

Books are boring, " James said as he wrote."They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown, " I offered.

My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same depth

Careful with what you know and what you experience. Sometimes, closed mouth with memories is better than opened mouth with stories.

The most beautiful person is a person with kind heart and loving soul.

He nodded and leaned down to kiss me. I let him, Dad be damned.

When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.

I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all the time.

Giving someone the freedom to take responsibility releases resources that would otherwise remain concealed.