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

Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

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

The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine!

We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

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