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
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
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
If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you. — Frank Auerbach Copy Share
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
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
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
Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching. — Frank Auerbach Copy Share
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
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
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
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...… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share
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
