BEING FRANK

There's a nice interview with Robert Frank on the new Saatchi tvsite: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blog/art/robert_frank_in_conversation_with_howard_norman/5217

He was asked a simple question from a member of the audience and this is what he said:

You have all of our ears, what would you like us to know before
you go back where your next journey takes you?

(laughter)

ROBERT FRANK: That's a very big question. I'd like you to have open eyes, you know. I mean, I
think it's very important to look around carefully, and knowing. I got to know by reading and by
looking--that's your choice what you--how you find it, you know? I always--when I used to lecture or
to go to schools, you know, I said to them, "All you have to do is look at me. Look at this wreck of a
man, or look at me as an inspired something." I mean that's how you learn something, from looking at
the guy, and, "Boy, it's too hard," that's what you learn from him or from me. And that's wonderful. You can be in New York and see many different people that to come to present themselves. How do you
learn?

HOWARD NORMAN: Same way, Robert. Read, read, read, just sit and stare at people. (laughter)
Something happens.

ROBERT FRANK: Yeah, I saw that film on Andy Warhol. And it's very good, when he says he just
stared at something for a long time and then he really came up with the answer. (laughter) Well, there
are different ways to find out. For me it was a lot about looking, you know. I mean, it was moving and
looking or standing still. I think there was a book of mine, Hold Still, Keep Moving, yeah.