Frank Auerbach Quotes

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.

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.

Ideally, One Should Have More Material Than One Can Possibly Cope With.

I Destroy Things Every Day In The Act Of Working And Often Recall A Picture I Had Considered Finished In Order To Rework It.

Garden Work Consists Much More In Uprooting Weeds Than In Planting Seed. This Applies Also To Teaching.

If You Pass Something Every Day And It Has A Little Character, It Begins To Intrigue You.

I Never Work With An Audience - I Can't Do This. The Process Depends On The Highest Degree Of Nervous Concentration.

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 Go Out Each Morning And Draw. I Can't Really Start A Painting In The Morning Until I've Done A Drawing.

Falsehood Always Punishes Itself.

Real Style Is Not Having A Program - It's How One Behaves In A Crisis.

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.