All Ground is Holy
"These Ten Commandments on seeing/drawing were revealed to me on a mountain, but also in a meadow, on a beach and even in the subway. For their revelation did not come all at once, but in installments, as it were, over the years, and always while I was busy drawing, and invariably on holy ground. But that may be because, while drawing, all ground is holy: unseparated from the Whole."
~ Frederick Franck, from The Awakened Eye
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You shall draw everything and every day
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You shall not wait for inspiration, for it comes not while you wait but while you work
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You shall forget all you think you know and, even more,
all you have been taught -
You shall not adore your good drawings and promptly forget your bad ones
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You shall not draw with exhibitions in mind, nor to please any critic but yourself
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You shall trust none but your own eye, and make your hand follow it
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You shall consider the mouse you draw as more important than the contents of all the museums in the world, for
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You shall love the ten thousand things with all your heart and a blade of grass as yourself
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Let each drawing be your first: a celebration of the eye awakened
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You shall not worry about "being of your time", for you are your time, and it is brief
