In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current …

Frank Auerbach
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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.
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, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978) … ▶
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 t … ▶
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 … ▶
I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

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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