Faces are the most interesting things we see

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.

My soulmust reachinto the cloudsand touch the beauty of madness.

I couldn't imagine being a girl. The bullshit routine they had to go through just to get out the door consumed half of their lives.

And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I believe they can do it.

If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.