Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

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.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

The chit is semi-animate (half-alive) and the mind is completely physical.

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be.

I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped - as it is when you've been shot across the chest.

We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves.

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.

A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.