Frederick Franck famous quotes

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

#Different #World

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.
-- Frederick Franck

#Art #Hobbies #Way

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

#Art #Drawing #Miracle

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.
-- Frederick Franck

#Eye #Clouds #Rushing

Do you believe in God?" "Which one?
-- Frederick Franck

#Believe #Believe In God

Do you believe in God? I, I believe in nothing but God!
-- Frederick Franck

#Believe #I Believe #Believe In God

The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being
-- Frederick Franck

#Doe #Void #Creation

What are you?" I am no What! I am only I ... In relation to you!
-- Frederick Franck

#Relation

The clearsighted eye turns the light back to see its own Original Nature...
-- Frederick Franck

#Eye #Light #Turns

The Tao cannot be divided, it cannot be shared
-- Frederick Franck

#Tao

all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!
-- Frederick Franck

#Men #Earth #Saws

Life ends with the previous thought It is resurrected with the subsequent One
-- Frederick Franck

#Ends

The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.
-- Frederick Franck

#Delusional #Constructs

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

#Fabric

People walking? Karma walking ... Buddha nature walking..!
-- Frederick Franck

#Karma #People #Buddha Nature

Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!
-- Frederick Franck

#Christ #Enlightened

Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?
-- Frederick Franck

#Ego #Doe #Spirit

The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity.
-- Frederick Franck

#Resurrection #Christianity #Crosses

They do not see what they look at, hence they know not what they do.
-- Frederick Franck

#Looks

the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion
-- Frederick Franck

#Distance #Compassion #Brain

I am neither I nor Other, both I and other...
-- Frederick Franck

When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation.
-- Frederick Franck

#Hands #Evil #World

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!
-- Frederick Franck

#Ego #Saint #May

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

#Gratitude #Eye #Wake Up

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

#Copying #Way #Awareness

Illusion is the mantle of the Real
-- Frederick Franck

#Real #Illusion

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.
-- Frederick Franck

#Drawing #Discipline #World

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.
-- Frederick Franck

#Drawing #Order #Discipline

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

#Wise #Talking #Looks

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.
-- Frederick Franck

#Artist #Guitar #Hands

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

#Inspirational #Courage #Real

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen
-- Frederick Franck

#Drawing #Sketching #I Have Learned

a single leaf falling autumn is everywhere...
-- Frederick Franck

#Fall #Autumn #Leafs

each dot: the center of a circle without circumference ...
-- Frederick Franck

#Circles #Dots

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.
-- Frederick Franck

#Thinking #Kale #Looks

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

#Drawing #Wake Up #Wonder

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

#Roots #Apples #Tree

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

#Children #Hands #Drawing

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

#Vision #Lenses #Looks

I and the Father are not-two!
-- Frederick Franck

#Father #Two

When the Christ says I: it is the I of all the Masters: the Way, the Truth, the Life
-- Frederick Franck

#Way #Christ #Masters

In the beginngless beginning there was the Meaning
-- Frederick Franck

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

#Reality #Stills #Ultimate