Never take your eyes off your opponent. . . even when you bow.
Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.
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, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.
It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call 'The Ten Thousand Things' around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.
In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.
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.
Most people are awestruck when they see Lady Gaga and Bette Midler, but then the queen comes in.
I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world.
if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.