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!

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.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.

one of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

I would like to see more successful business people run for office.

When I was 22, I was having a ball!

The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.