Frederick Franck
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.Collection: Art
Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.Collection: Wise
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.Collection: Drawing
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.Collection: Eye
I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life.... They are the artists of being alive.Collection: Artist
Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.Collection: Perspective
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.Collection: Vision
The eye awakened is the eye in love.Collection: Eye
Everyone thinks he knows what a lettuce looks like. But start to draw one and you realise the anomaly of having lived with lettuces all your life but never having seen one, never having seen the semi-translucent leaves curling in their own lettuce way, never having noticed what makes a lettuce a lettuce rather than a curly kale.Collection: Thinking
You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.Collection: Copying
Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.Collection: Drawing
I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seenCollection: Drawing
To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.Collection: Children
While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.Collection: Drawing
For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.Collection: Wise
This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth.Collection: Roots
Do you believe in God? I, I believe in nothing but God!Collection: Believe
The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.Collection: Delusional
Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.Collection: Inspirational
In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept him alive, awake .. who have encouraged him without even trying - just by being. They have been One's real teachers.Collection: Teacher
The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine!Collection: Eye
It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory.Collection: Fabric
The clearsighted eye turns the light back to see its own Original Nature.Collection: Eye
When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.Collection: Wise
If you still have to talk about Ultimate Reality See how it manifests itself nakedly in Every thing!Collection: Reality
Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?Collection: Ego
What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.Collection: Spiritual
The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-BeingCollection: Doe
I and the Father are not-two!Collection: Father
They do not see what they look at, hence they know not what they do.Collection: Looks
Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!Collection: Christ
When the Christ says I: it is the I of all the Masters: the Way, the Truth, the LifeCollection: Way
Each dot: the center of a circle without circumference...Collection: Circles
A single leaf falling autumn is everywhere.Collection: Fall
all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!Collection: Men
the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom CompassionCollection: Distance
When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation".Collection: Hands
The Tao cannot be divided, it cannot be shared.Collection: Tao
The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!Collection: Ego
Illusion is the mantle of the RealCollection: Real
What are you?" I am no What! I am only I ... In relation to you!Collection: Relation
The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity.Collection: Resurrection
People walking? Karma walking ... Buddha nature walking..!Collection: Karma
Life ends with the previous thought It is resurrected with the subsequent OneCollection: Ends
Do you believe in God?" "Which one?Collection: Believe