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.

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.

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.

California is always in my mind.

I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.

While many people are proud of being self-made, it only explains all the flaws.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

She is a winsome wee thing She is a handsome wee thing She is a bonny wee thing This sweet wee wife o' mine.

A catless writer is almost inconceivable.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

War starts in the mind, not in the body.