Frank Auerbach

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

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

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the read more

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.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave read more

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.

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

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

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in read more

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