Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept him alive, awake .. who have encouraged him without even trying - just by being. They have been One's real teachers.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.

For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.

When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen