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Frank Auerbach

"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."

Source : Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”

Frank Auerbach

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“I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.”
“Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.”
“Somewhere in the fear and chaos, there is a clarity that few will ever experience.”
“There is no democracy without dissent.”

Source : "CBS' Scott Pelley on Fake News, Trump's War on the Press and His Favorite Movie of the Year" by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 23, 2016.
“The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.”
“You download it for free, we get charged back for it. I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it, Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit." So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob, And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?”
“Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.”

Source : "Prince of the Ghetto". Book by Maurice Samuel (p. 162), 1948.
“I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating peopleâ€™s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.”

"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."

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