Frank Auerbach quotes

Frank Auerbach is a German-born British artist known for his intense and expressive portraits and cityscapes. His work stands out for its thickly layered paint and dynamic brushwork. He continues to be regarded as one of the most important postwar painters in Britain. Here are 7 of his 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.

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

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

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

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

Frank Auerbach

Occupation: German Artist
Born: April 29, 1931
Died: November 11, 2024
Quotes count: 7

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