Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!

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.

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

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.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

Just because you felt like a failure in the past, doesn't mean you can't get back up again and make something better of your future.

Good to evil seems evil

I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

My mother always said you could eat off her floor; you could eat of my floor too, there's so much food down there.

When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

Politics is but a narrow field.

I have said explicitly from day one when I announced this policy in, I believe, November of 2011, that I and our government oppose the idea of banning the wearing of the niqab in public.

When you are in pain, a moment is an eternity.

Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.