Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.
Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.
Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.
The eye awakened is the eye in love.
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.
When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.