With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

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.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.

I wish I had a little bit more privacy.

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.