Frederick Franck
(1909-2006)

Dutch-American artist & writer,
Created Pacem in Terris, an inter-religious sanctuary

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's World Citizenship Award

birthdate: April 12
birthplace:
Maastricht, The Netherlands

QUOTES

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.

The meaning of life is to see.

For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.

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

A non-creative environment is one that constantly bombards us, I said, overloads our switchboard with noise, with agiation and with visual stimuli. Once we can detach ourselves from all these distractions, find a way of 'inscape' of 'centering,' the same environment becomes creative again.

"When you go on a pilgrimage, you set out from where you happen to be and start walking toward a place of great sanctity in the hope of returning from it renewed, enriched and sanctified."

Pacem in Terris is not tied to any particular religion, but to all. . . and to none. For I hope that it may speak also to those who, while shunning religious labels, share fully in the specifically human quest for meaning and for values to live by. For to be human or not to be, that is the question!"

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