The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!

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.

Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

Please understand 1 thing, if u want something all you have to do is think it into existence. It may manifest immediately, it may take time.

She comes back Through blood by blood She returns Cut deep now Like me Humanity saves her Will she save me?

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

You have to break in half to love somebody.