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...

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were...

Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.

I’m a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

I am in no doubt but you will be able to conquer America at last, but a horrid bloody scene will be opened here as never was in New England before.

Shadows sometimes people don’t see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

I am now in a Place where I can be protected from the Harpy Claws of that Rebellion which is now tearing out its own Bowels in America.

Anything simple always interests me.

Smoking calms me down. It’s enjoyable. I don’t want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever...

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

Television is becoming a collage – there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

There are enough no smoking places now.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you’ve taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but...

Well you can’t teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about...

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you’re using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

What I didn’t know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.