Frank Auerbach quotes
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“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 AuerbachSource : Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”
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“I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.”
-- Frank AuerbachSource : Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”
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“Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.”
-- Frank AuerbachSource : Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”
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“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 following morning.”
-- Frank AuerbachSource : Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”
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“I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.”
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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.”
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“If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.”
-- Frank AuerbachSource : "Surfaces and depths" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2001.
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“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.”
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“Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.”
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“Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.”
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“I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.”
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“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 health.”
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“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 and creative life.”
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“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 dots were an instrument.”
-- Frank Auerbach
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