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.
Frederick FranckEnlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.
Frederick FranckIn 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.
Frederick FranckI 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.
Frederick FranckFor you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.
Frederick FranckIn 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.
Frederick FranckWhat is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.
Frederick FranckYou are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
Frederick FranckThe 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!
Frederick FranckIt 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.
Frederick Franck