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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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