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

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.

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

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

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.