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If you know Zen, you will find in this book one more interesting practical implementation of Zen, like the famous “Zen in the Art of Archery”. If you are a drawing artist or studying to become one, it will teach you that a bird is not an ellipse with head and tail added, but yet another form of your inner being, which you first have to identify yourself with in order to become a silent link of the creative flow. If you are looking for a step-by-step drawing tutorial, you will have to search for some other source.
Franck claims that the artist-within must exist in every man, for if man is created in God’s image, it can only mean that he is created creative. While he admires an old man who says that ‘I am not an artist; I am just copying things’, for him this kind of copying is not the same as consciously trying to make things look the same, but rather becoming part of the process itself. For Franck the inexpressible is the only thing that it is worth while expressing.
I love this book for its sincerity and deep mental approach to the art of drawing. While the book is full of his beautiful creations, Franck stays humble and being true to the Zen tradition he wants to be just a ‘True-Man-With-No-Label’ drawing the ‘Ten Thousand Things’. This book is published handwritten, because, as he says, it is a love letter.
I've never found another book like this.
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