Occupation: Photographer Birth: July 9, 1937
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist..
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything..
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out..
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning..
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 ….
It takes a long time to make it simple..
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 think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial..
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….
Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look.
The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it..
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it..
You must plan to be spontaneous..
I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful..
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….
The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting..
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 ….
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive..
If we are to change our world view, images have to change..
If you are not playful you are not alive..