Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Auerbach

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German artist Frank Auerbach.

Last updated on November 6, 2024.

Frank Helmut Auerbach is a German-British painter. Born in Germany, he has been a naturalised British subject since 1947.

German - Artist | Born: April 19, 1931

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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.

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

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

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

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

Frank Auerbach

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

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

Frank Auerbach

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

Frank Auerbach

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

Frank Auerbach

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

Frank Auerbach

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.

Frank Auerbach

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.

Frank Auerbach

Falsehood always punishes itself.

Frank Auerbach

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.

Frank Auerbach

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

Frank Auerbach

Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Auerbach

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