I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration. — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis. — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do.… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you. — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter,… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching. — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
