The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

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.

Love changes things

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Better a friend to all his weight in gold.

As long as I'm reading, I'm at home.

I have very little patience for teachers who teach their students things that are wrong.

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

No worries. They don’t scare me. (Devyn) All right, but if my brain matter ends up smeared against a wall, I’ll never forgive you. (Alix)

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.