"While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass,……" — Frederick Franck
"While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all."
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Frederick Franck
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17 Quotes by Frederick Franck
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I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing…
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When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.
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You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that…
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Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.
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Illusion is the mantle of the Real
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Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.
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It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and…
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For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only…
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Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.
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I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They…
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Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that…
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In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and…
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