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. — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists. — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory. — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha! — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth! — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks he knows what a lettuce looks like. But start to draw one and you realise the anomaly of having lived with lettuces… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all. — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit? — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous! — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
