Frederick Franck Quotes

Frederick Franck

"Art is the most profound, most irrepressible response to life itself, whether that art is drawing, dancing, playing a flute or acting on a stage. Seeing/drawing is, for me that response. It is the response of the artist-within."
 - Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing  Meditation in Action by Frederick Franck

"When I draw the rose, it looks back at me. It contains all the secrets of Creation, as Shiki saw so clearly. Through that rose I am in touch with myself, with my Self. To be in touch with the Self, with the innermost workings of life, is what Zen is about."
 - Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing - Meditation in Action by Frederick Franck

"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."
- Zen of Seeing  - Seeing/Drawing as meditation by Frederick Franck

"SEEING/DRAWING is, beyond words, and beyond silence, the artist's response to being alive. Insofar as it has anything to transmit, it transmits a quality of awareness.
- Zen of Seeing  - Seeing/Drawing as meditation by Frederick Franck

Drawing, figure, page 120, The Zen of Seeing by Frederick Franck

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