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

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.

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.

We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience

Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.

I think most important, you need to have the compassion and caring for helping to protect vulnerable people.

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.

We all do better, when we all do better.