The local painters were my idols. . . These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who … - Frederick Franck

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He realized. . . that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

Frederick Franck

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!

Artist, Artists, Eye, Idols, Local

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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He realized. . . that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

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From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.

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Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

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Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told me to do. . . I am also aware that I do receive much criticism from the outside world for what I do and some people actually get angry at me. But this does not really touch me because I feel that these people do not live in he same world as do I.

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I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.

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