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

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

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine!

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