Inspirational Quotes by Frederick Franck

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

— Frederick Franck

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

— Frederick Franck

It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory.

— Frederick Franck

Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!

— Frederick Franck

all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!

— Frederick Franck

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

Do you believe in God?" "Which one?

— Frederick Franck

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

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

the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion

— Frederick Franck

While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.

— Frederick Franck

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

— Frederick Franck