Frederick Franck Quotes

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• 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…
• When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.
• You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
• Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.
• Illusion is the mantle of the Real
• Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.
• 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…
• For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.
• Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.
• 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…
• Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.
• 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,…
• I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen
• 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…
• 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…
• While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.
• 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.

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