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

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

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.

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

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.