You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

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.

As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one’s self to their number.

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great parts for women.

We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make promises we don’t keep.

I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.

I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there.

A body would think that your heart was as black as your face. People thinks now that sweeps is black all through instead of blackall over.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.