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“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.”

Quote by Frank Auerbach

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Frank Auerbach is a British painter known for his profound depictions of people and urban landscapes. His works are characterized by strong emotional expression and a realistic style, highly regarded in the art world. more

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“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.”

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

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

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Book:Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978

Source: Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978

“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.”

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Book:Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978

Source: Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978

“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.”

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Book:Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978

Source: Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978

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

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“Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.”

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“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”

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“Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.”

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“Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.”

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