You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
Illusion is the mantle of the Real
What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.
Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.
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!