Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?

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.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like The Simpsons.

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.