I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.

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.

I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.

IBM doesn't want its people to get frustrated and restless because it has them reaching for carrots they can't quit

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

If you're talking triple threat of a writer, singer and actress, that would probably be Beyoncé. If Aaliyah were still here, she and Beyoncé would be neck and neck.

The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.

I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.