Illusion is the mantle of the Real

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

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

It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call 'The Ten Thousand Things' around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. 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.

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

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

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