Frank Auerbach Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Frank Auerbach

#4. If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.

Frank Auerbach

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Frank Auerbach

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

Frank Auerbach

#12. Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

Frank Auerbach

#13. 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

#14. Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

Frank Auerbach

#15. 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