"To put down an ideogram of a table……" — 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, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."

Frank Auerbach

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