Frank Auerbach Quotes

"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
(Related: Act, Day, Order)

"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
(Related: Imagination, Work, People, Beginning, Magic, Sense, Will)

"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."
- Frank Auerbach
(Related: Work, Fact, Style, Unity, Will)

"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
(Related: Living, Mind, World)

"Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with."
- 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 the following morning."
- Frank Auerbach
(Related: Madness, May)