The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

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.

Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we’ve given them permission to be impossible.

The greater the truth the greater the libel.

Instead of cutting Social Security, we're going to expand Social Security benefits.

I'll keep singing 'till I die.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.

Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.