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!

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

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

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

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

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.