Water colours are wet colours in water.

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 I hear any more loud voices, you will both be auctioned off on eBay. I could use the extra money.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.

Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

We all saw it coming. Arsenal's youth policy has always been very good.

Try to stick to free weights as much as possible as they work the stabilizers as well as the main muscles being targeted!

Sameness is what marketers want us to want.

To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.