I do believe that painting can change the world.

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.

He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.

When two people love one another, they fight the world together, not each other "~ Levon Peter Poe

Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

How can we speak about "drugs"? It is like speaking about the human race - each person is different, each drug is different!

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.