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

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.

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

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.

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, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.