“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.” FeelsFirstsEarthTreeDrawsRootsExperienceApplesBranchesToesSapApple Trees Author:Frederick Franck
“Everyone thinks he knows what a lettuce looks like. But start to draw one and you realise the anomaly of having lived with lettuces all your life but never having seen one, never having seen the semi-translucent leaves curling in their own lettuce way, never having noticed what makes a lettuce a lettuce rather than a curly kale.” ThinkingKnowsWayLooksDrawsRealisingAnomaliesLettuceKale Author: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 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.” WorldOrderRealizingAliveDisciplineThousandTenDrawsOrdinaryMiracleExtraordinaryDeeperDrawingChineseI Have LearnedSheerOrdinary Things Author:Frederick Franck
