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Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.
Frederick Franck
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Frederick Franck
Age: 97 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 12
Died: 2006
Died: June 5
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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.
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The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity.
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The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!
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The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine!
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The eye awakened is the eye in love.
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Do you believe in God? I, I believe in nothing but God!
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Life ends with the previous thought It is resurrected with the subsequent One
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I and the Father are not-two!
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What are you? I am no What! I am only I ... In relation to you!
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While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.
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When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: on this Earth I attained Liberation.
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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.
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You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
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Do you believe in God? Which one?
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It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory.
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Each dot: the center of a circle without circumference...
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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.
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The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.
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