There has been a compulsion to do this work. It's as if I have been driven and it has been my destiny to do this work. The Buddhist Review, Fall 1999 Creative activity is a spiritual discipline. Especially when it gives form to what the creator loves and is urged to express from the deepest inner parts of his or her being. Works of art that withstand the test of time, that touch beholders from generation to generation with the same uplifting spiritual longings, are works created by artists truly in touch with God's own Creative Presence.
Art is also spiritual practice.
The practice is being with yourself, with actually sitting down and being in that space . . . If you work alone for eighteen hours a day, then you have the continuity of exploring the mind for eighteen hours a day. However, few of them understand why I paint. And unless they have the 'wisdom of the eye' they can never know. My painting cannot be judged as those of the ancients and of the modern specialists.