Art exists
to make the Spirit
– ever present –
obvious.

Art should be
as the ferry boat
to the Land
of Heaven on earth.

I paint not for those who will admire and buy, but for needy sufferers who may be healed thereby.

The purpose of Art should not be to shock, to confuse – but to reassure. And the most important reassurance is that our mothers love us, for only then can we fearlessly open our hearts and surrender to love.

Painting, to me, is very involved with intimacy: from intimacy with the canvas to Intimacy with the Muse.

If you have a subject to paint, then you are always thinking of the end result, not of what exactly you are doing at every particular moment. Conscious of the apple on the stand, not the exquisitely intimate contact of each stroke of brush on canvas.

It’s like when walking, being aware of the destination and thus not of the wondrous sensation of each foot in turn meeting the ground and moving on it. Our minds are set ahead, not living in each precious moment (Circulation-Sex 4). Oblivious to all the beauty around us, we must get there. We must paint the apple.

Every day I write whatever comes to me to write about. And I love doing it.

But if I am asked to write about a particular topic – even one I know well, and may of my own volition have written about previously, I don’t enjoy the writing experience nearly as much.

For me, a major – perhaps the major – criterion of any work of art is whether the viewer believes not that the artist has painted it, but that it has been painted through him. As D. H. Lawrence proclaimed, “Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!”

There are three levels to a work of art, to a photograph:

1. There is what it appears to be – its external reality. Your conscious response.
2. Then there’s what you imagine it to be – your association to it. From your unconscious.
3. And then there’s its Soul – what it Really is. Your response from your Deep Unconscious, your Soul.

My paintings have no story, no meaning.
It's like meeting someone new
without knowing anything about him.
Just what you feel –
hopefully, his Buddha-Nature.