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

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

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

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

If you still have to talk about Ultimate Reality See how it manifests itself nakedly in Every thing!

The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.

the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion

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.

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

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

Working hard is not a waste of time, but a state of mind. Keep pushing your limits until you reach the edge. Then be kind and rewind.

Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!

Every dog must have his day.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

My music is for real women and it's about real women and I am a real woman.

Size counts. That's all.

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.