Frank Auerbach famous quotes

04-17-2025

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.
-- Frank Auerbach

#People #Imagination #Magic
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Mind #World #Species
Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Artist #Should #Materials
It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Morning #Wake Up #May
I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Order #Rework
I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Degrees #Nervous #Process
If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Character #Littles #Intrigue
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Style #Unity #Way
Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Weed #Teaching #Garden
Falsehood always punishes itself.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Lying #Falsehood
Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Real #Style #Program
I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Morning #Drawing #Done
In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Feelings #Energy #Levels
I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Thinking #Office #Creative
I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Thinking #Trying #Dots

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