Occupation: Photographer Birth: July 9, 1937
If you are not playful you are not alive..
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….
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….
You must plan to be spontaneous..
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it..
The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting..
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain ….
Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look.
I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things..
The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it..
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 ….
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….
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill..
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….
It takes a long time to make it simple..
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..
If we are to change our world view, images have to change..
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….
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….
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial..