Frank Auerbach Quotes

#1. I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!

Russell Tovey

#2. Ultimately of course, parents must take responsibility for their children's health, .. Our message must be: What you don't know about your children's health insurance options can hurt them. It's up to you to find out if your child is eligible for this health insurance.

Hillary Clinton

#3. 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

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

Frank Auerbach

#5. We're all primitives underneath, that's why we had to invent God, to be the voice of our conscience, or we would be killing each other left, right and centre.

Kate Atkinson

#6. 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

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

Frank Auerbach

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

Frank Auerbach

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Frank Auerbach

#12. Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

Yoko Ono

#13. 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

#14. Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Frank Auerbach

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

Frank Auerbach

#19. 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

#20. On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.

Natasha Trethewey

#21. 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