Quotes by 'Frank Auerbach'

Frank Auerbach

Frank Helmut Auerbachis a British painter. Born in Germany, he has been a naturalised British citizen since 1947...

thinking office creative

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.

thinking trying dots

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.

weed teaching garden

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

desperate-situations unity style

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.

degrees nervous process

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

order rework finished

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

character littles intrigue

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

morning drawing done

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

lying falsehood

Falsehood always punishes itself.

feelings levels energy

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.

morning wake-up may

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.

artist should-have should

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

real style program

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

mind world species

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