Frank Auerbach quotes

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)
Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Frank Auerbach
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. View quote
Frank Auerbach
Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis. View quote
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. View quote
Frank Auerbach