Frederick Franck Citas

• 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.

  Federico Franck

  Art, Drawing, Miracle

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• Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

  Federico Franck

  Wise, Art, Hobbies

  Frederick Franck (1993). “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action”, Bantam

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• 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 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.

  Federico Franck

  Drawing, Order, Discipline

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• 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, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.

  Federico Franck

  Eye, Clouds, Rushing

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

  Federico Franck

  Perspective, Different, World

  Frederick Franck (1993). “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action”, Bantam

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• 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 medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life.... They are the artists of being alive.

  Federico Franck

  Artist, Guitar, Hands

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• Miramos mucho: miramos a través de lentes, telescopios, tubos de televisión... Nuestra mirada se perfecciona cada día, pero cada vez vemos menos.

  Federico Franck

  Vision, Lenses, Looks

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• The eye awakened is the eye in love.

  Federico Franck

  Eye, Awakened

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• Everyone thinks he knows what a lettuce looks like. But start to draw one and you realise the anomaly of having lived with lettuces all your life but never having seen one, never having seen the semi-translucent leaves curling in their own lettuce way, never having noticed what makes a lettuce a lettuce rather than a curly kale.

  Federico Franck

  Thinking, Kale, Looks

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

  Federico Franck

  Copying, Way, Awareness

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• Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

  Federico Franck

  Drawing, Discipline, World

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• He aprendido que lo que no he dibujado, en realidad nunca lo he visto

  Federico Franck

  Drawing, Sketching, I Have Learned

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

  Federico Franck

  Drawing, Wake Up, Wonder

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• 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 let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.

  Federico Franck

  Children, Hands, Drawing

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• For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.

  Federico Franck

  Wise, Talking, Looks

  Frederick Franck (1993). “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action”, Bantam

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• Las religiones son construcciones delirantes formadas en torno a un núcleo infalible.

  Federico Franck

  Delusional, Constructs, Infallible

  "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 74, 1985.

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• 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 in my toes how its roots grip the earth.

  Federico Franck

  Roots, Apples, Tree

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• Do you believe in God? I, I believe in nothing but God!

  Federico Franck

  Believe, I Believe, Believe In God

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

  Federico Franck

  Inspirational, Courage, Real

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• The clearsighted eye turns the light back to see its own Original Nature.

  Federico Franck

  Eye, Light, Turns

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• In 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.

  Federico Franck

  Teacher, Real, Artist

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• When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.

  Federico Franck

  Wise, Gratitude, Eye

  Frederick Franck (1993). “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action”, Bantam

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• The 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!

  Federico Franck

  Eye, Artist, Idols

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

  Federico Franck

  Fabric, Whole, Separateness

  "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 77, 1985.

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

  Federico Franck

  Reality, Stills, Ultimate

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