I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

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.

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.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

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.

I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life.... They are the artists of being alive.