There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

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.

If you want to make your wife joyful, treat her like Holy Spirit

Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.

Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.

I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.