My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth.

We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.

What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself.

It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.

It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.