What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.

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.

To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.

Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

You must never underestimate the power of your righteous influence.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

I love the U.S. I love doing business there.

Not many people are true, fake as the lies they tell

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.