Creative Quote by Frank Auerbach

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

— 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.

— 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.…

— Frank Auerbach

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

— 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…

— 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.

— 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,…

— Frank Auerbach

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

— Frank Auerbach

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

— 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…

— 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.

— 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...…

— Frank Auerbach