Franck Quotes & Sayings

We all go through it. Kids exist to remind us that our priorities aren't always the ones we think. Even if it's hard sometimes, they put order in our lives. — Franck Thilliez

If you still have to talk about Ultimate Reality See how it manifests itself nakedly in Every thing! — Frederick Franck

Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor. — Martine Franck

A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected. — Martine Franck

The process of finding an actor is always difficult and there's always so many variables that come into play. Also, actors sometimes carry baggage, fans associate actors with certain parts. — Franck Khalfoun

The clearsighted eye turns the light back to see its own Original Nature ... — Frederick Franck

So you've probably already shown them Bernard and Bianca - The Rescuers." "Like every other mom." "That cartoon contains a subliminal image of a naked woman hiding in a window, at one point. A small personal quirk of the animator's, no doubt. Don't worry, it won't have any effect on your children's minds - the image is too tiny! The fact remains that no one ever saw it, in all the years that cartoon was being shown. — Franck Thilliez

In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept him alive, awake .. who have encouraged him without even trying - just by being. They have been One's real teachers. — Frederick Franck

The superior officer raised his ice-blue eyes, then went back to his chore without exhibiting any particular emotion. If the colonel was involved in the affair, Sharko thought, if he had kept up with the news following the discovery of the bodies in Gravenchon, he would certainly know Sharko's face, who he was. If so, had he been steeling himself for this visit since the corporal on guard had called ahead? Or had he simply not recognized him? — Franck Thilliez

Do you believe in God? I, I believe in nothing but God! — Frederick Franck

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

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor. — James Franck

He sounded good, didn't he?" added Franck.
"He only stuttered eight times."
"That's what I mean. — Anna Gavalda

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. — Frederick Franck

What are you? I am no What! I am only I ... In relation to you! — 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. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life ... They are the artists of being alive. — Frederick Franck

What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected. — Martine Franck

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object. — Frederick Franck

It is wise to avoid militants of all plumage, to trust only the fanatically unfanatic — Frederick Franck

The distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion — Frederick Franck

My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking through a lens: for a split second nothing else exists outside the frame. — Martine Franck

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous! — Frederick Franck

Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time. — Franck Khalfoun

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! — Frederick Franck

The world wishes to be deceived. — Sebastian Franck

I am neither I nor Other, both I and other ... — Frederick Franck

Someone asks three people, a German, a Frenchman, and an Egyptian, what Adam and Eve's nationality was. The German answers, 'Adam and Eve exude good health and vital hygiene: they must be German!' The Frenchman declares, 'Adam and Eve have sublime, erotic bodies: they can only be French!' But the Egyptian concludes, 'Adam and Eve are naked as jaybirds, they don't have enough to buy shoes, and yet they're convinced they live in Paradise: what else could they be but Egyptians? — Franck Thilliez

I always thought that for me the unassuming, friendly looking guy next door is certainly scarier as a monster than the monsterish looking predator, because he can lure people in, it's easier. — Franck Khalfoun

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word. — Sebastian Franck

I think I was shy as a young woman and realized that photography was an ideal way of expressing myself, of telling people what was going on without having to talk. — Martine Franck

They do not see what they look at, hence they know not what they do. — Frederick Franck

On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence. — Frederick Franck

I play how I feel. I don't have a set way of playing. I get going, looking to create danger. — Franck Ribery

The world loves to be deceived. — Sebastian Franck

The Tao cannot be divided, it cannot be shared — Frederick Franck

People walking? Karma walking ... Buddha nature walking..! — Frederick Franck

In the dead of night, his keen senses suddenly focused on the entry door. An infinitesimal sound of metal pierced the silence in the hallway. Immediately, Sharko turned off the light and grabbed up his Sig. Here they were. Beneath his door, he saw, very briefly, the beam of a flashlight, before everything went black again. His jaw set, he slowly got up from his chair and crept toward the living room. On the other side, the linoleum floor creaked slightly. Sharko felt the edge of his sofa and crouched down, his gun aimed blindly in front of him. He could have attacked from the front, by surprise, but he didn't know how many there were. One thing was for sure: they rarely went out alone. — Franck Thilliez

Do you believe in God?" "Which one? — Frederick Franck

Making a movie is about following characters and embarking on an adventure with them, seeing their reactions, and seeing what they do, having empathy for those characters, feeling for those characters, embarking on this adventure. — Franck Khalfoun

Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary. — Franck Ribery

Life ends with the previous thought It is resurrected with the subsequent One — Frederick Franck

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.
— Frederick Franck

All at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth! — Frederick Franck

My advice to photographers is to get out there in the field and take photographs but also if they are students to finish their course, learn as many languages as possible, go to movies, read books visit museums, broaden your mind. — Martine Franck

I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home empty-handed, with images which (often) have a documentary interest, but which rarely go further than that. One has to be completely available, very tenacious and admit that many subjects won't give any results ... and a miracle sometimes happens, without warning. — Martine Franck

When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted. — Frederick Franck

The eye awakened is the eye in love. — Frederick Franck

When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: on this Earth I attained Liberation. — Frederick Franck

I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat. — Martine Franck

You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults. — Franck Ribery

It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory ... — Frederick Franck

To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life. — Frederick Franck

I feel concerned by what happens in the world ... I don't want to merely document; I want to know why a certain thing disturbs or attracts me and how a situation can affect the person involved. — Martine Franck

Sure, Messi and Ronaldo have scored more goals than me. But I won the treble! — Franck Ribery

Highly esteemed dear Professor Franck,
In these days in which by your magnanimous decision you show the world where the insane oppression of the Jews leads to, I as one of your students would not like to be missing among those who declare their sincere thanks and unlimited veneration to you, and who especially now are filled with the highest admiration by your present step and the reason given by you, and who at the same time are filled with horror that such a thing is necessary.
I am at a loss for words to express what both my wife and I always and especially now feel for you. Please remember us to your wife and chidlren and accept our sincere greetings. — Gerhard Herzberg

The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being — Frederick Franck

Frederick Franck is one of a rare and precious breed - an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly roams our materialistic world and shows us that even here, even now, there is hope for our soul. — Jacob Needleman

What Lucie was hearing surpassed all understanding. A mass derangement, with the aid of bogus medical records and money under the table. — Franck Thilliez

In the beginngless beginning there was the Meaning — Frederick Franck

The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core. — Frederick Franck

Years after Planck's death in 1947, at the age of 89, his former student and colleague James Franck recalled watching his hopeless struggle 'to avoid quantum theory, whether he could not at least make the influence of quantum theory as little as it could possibly be'.It was clear to Franck that Planck 'was a revolutionary against his own will' who 'finally came to the conclusion, "It doesn't help. We have to live with quantum theory. And believe me, it will expand."' It was a fitting epitaph for a reluctant revolutionary. — Manjit Kumar