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> [I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/i-never-work-with-an-audience-i-can-t-do-this-the-process-depends-on/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

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## More by Frank Auerbach

> [Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/real-style-is-not-having-a-program-it-s-how-one-behaves-in-a-crisis/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

> [I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/i-go-out-each-morning-and-draw-i-can-t-really-start-a-painting-in-the/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

> [I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/i-don-t-think-seurat-would-have-been-aware-of-the-dots-he-would-have/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

> [If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/if-you-pass-something-every-day-and-it-has-a-little-character-it/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

> [It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/it-seems-to-me-madness-to-wake-up-in-the-morning-and-do-something/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

> [I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/i-m-hoping-to-make-a-new-thing-for-the-world-that-remains-in-the-mind/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/to-put-down-an-ideogram-of-a-table-so-that-people-will-recognize-it/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

> [Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/garden-work-consists-much-more-in-uprooting-weeds-than-in-planting/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

> [Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/ideally-one-should-have-more-material-than-one-can-possibly-cope-with/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

> [In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/in-addition-to-the-artistic-influences-i-am-influenced-by-my-current/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

> [I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/i-think-that-the-very-earliest-influence-was-a-horror-of-having-to/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

> [I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/i-destroy-things-every-day-in-the-act-of-working-and-often-recall-a/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

> [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...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/the-unity-in-any-painter-s-work-arises-from-the-fact-that-a-person/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

> [I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/i-never-work-with-an-audience-i-can-t-do-this-the-process-depends-on/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

> [Falsehood always punishes itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-auerbach/falsehood-always-punishes-itself/)

[Frank Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-auerbach/)

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