Frank Auerbach Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by 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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-auerbach-quotes/#8360331a

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-auerbach-quotes/#122b3740

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-auerbach-quotes/#9cf39b6c

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-auerbach-quotes/#6fcb8b66

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-auerbach-quotes/#d0168950

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-auerbach-quotes/#b1bb792a

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frank-auerbach-quotes/#d0298c16

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