Illusion is the mantle of the Real

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

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

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.

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.

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