I love California; everything is so artificial.

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.

Think of another as you want God to think of you.

While you are busy thinking that it's impossible, there is someone somewhere in the world that is making it possible.

You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.

Create a tattoo or something inspired by tattoos.

Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.

I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants to.