When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.

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.

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

It had been horrible, yes, and he'd never want to do it again - but it truly was his most powerful experience.

With me: one minus one = one

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

I just try to keep rebounding the ball as much as I can. I just go out there and do what needs to be done and don't worry about my stats.

If someone else doesn't like your confidence, that's their problem. Why? You always come before they do, that's why.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.