What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

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.

You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.

God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

It's better to give ideas away and contribute to another person's success than to have them lying dormant.

The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that no one really understands.

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

Some people say I’m a dreamer, others say, 'If you fall asleep at work again we’re going to have to let you go'.

I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.