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
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.
When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.
Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.
For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.