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 …

- Frederick Franck

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

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 …

- Frederick Franck

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

- Frederick Franck

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

- Frederick Franck

I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. …

- Frederick Franck

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

- Frederick Franck

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

- Frederick Franck

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 i…

- Frederick Franck