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Frederick Franck Quotes



Quotes by Frederick Franck - (8 quotes)

Frederick Franck - From the Awareness category:

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

Frederick Franck - From the Drawing category:

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly discover the world. (Frederick Franck)

Frederick Franck - From the Drawing category:

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.' (Frederick Franck)

Frederick Franck - From the Drawing category:

- The Zen of Seeing, 1973...
I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen... (Frederick Franck)

Frederick Franck - From the Experience category:

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. (Frederick Franck)

Frederick Franck - From the Miracles category:

When I start drawing an ordinary thing I realize how extraordinary it is, what a sheer miracle: the branching of a tree, the structure of a dandelion's seed puff. (Frederick Franck)

Frederick Franck - From the Seeing category:

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 Franck)

Frederick Franck - From the Wonder category:

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