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.

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

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

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

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

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.

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.