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

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

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

- 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

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

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

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

- 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

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

- Frederick Franck