Quotes by 'Frank Auerbach'

Frank Auerbach

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

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.

real style program

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

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.

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.

weed teaching garden

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

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.

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.