Illusion is the mantle of the Real
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.
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.
When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.
You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.