Frank Auerbach Quotes
- Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.
- I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.
- 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…
- 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…
- I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.
- I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
- 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…
- 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…
- Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.
- Falsehood always punishes itself.
- Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.
- 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.
- If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.
- I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.
- 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…