Frank Auerbach Quotes

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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.

  • I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

    Artist   Mind   World  
    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”
  • 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.

  • Falsehood always punishes itself.

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

    Weed   Teaching   Garden  
  • 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, 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”
  • I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

    Order   Rework   Recalls  
  • 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, 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”
  • Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

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

    "Surfaces and depths" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2001.
  • Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

    Real   Style   Program  
  • I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

  • I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

    Morning   Drawing   Done  
  • 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.

    Thinking   Trying   Dots  
  • 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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