Frank AuerbachIn 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.375LifePolitics
Frank AuerbachI go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.281Sadness
Frank AuerbachReal style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.273Reflection
Frank AuerbachI'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing. ✨ Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Counc… ▶3110LifeThought
Frank AuerbachIdeally, 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 … ▶234Thought
Frank AuerbachTo 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… ▶268HumanitySadnessTime
Frank AuerbachIt 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 Gal… ▶226ReflectionSadness
Frank AuerbachI 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.249LifeThought
Frank AuerbachI destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.146Reflection
