the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion

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.

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.

something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace

I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I’m heaven’s landscape painter.

Hot heart-blood leaked from my face. From my eyes and my nose and my mouth. Not tears, because those would never stop. This was just liquid heartbreak seeping from my pores.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

I have long believed that what most affects a child is not the divorce, per se, but how it is handled

You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans.

Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.

When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to drive my business. Now, everything comes from the numbers.

I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.