Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

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.

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.

California is always in my mind.

Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.

I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

Girls are impossible to satisfy." "Not every girl." Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.