31 Quotes by Frederick Franck

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.

This book is handwritten because, in its way, it is a love letter, and love letters should not be typeset by compositors or computers.

Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

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

If you still have to talk about Ultimate Reality See how it manifests itself nakedly in Every thing!

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.

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

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.