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.

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.

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

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

How did you find me here? If I was blind, I would see you. Stay with me. Forever. That's the whole point. I'll never leave. Not even if you kill me.

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.