I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning..

I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, w….

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it..

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 wi….

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out..

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….

We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone ….

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist..

If you are not playful you are not alive..

The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting..

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive..

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful..

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 insi….

If we are to change our world view, images have to change..

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything..

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill..

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as a….

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 lookin….

It takes a long time to make it simple..

I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial..

The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it..