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.

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.

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.

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.

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.

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