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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.

~Frank Auerbach

Topics: Hoping Like Living Living Thing Make Mind New New Thing Remains Species Thing World

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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.

~Frank Auerbach

Topics: Act Considered Day Destroy Every Every Day Finished Had Often Order Picture Recall Things Working

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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

Topics: Beginning Carpet Corner Down Each Hanging Imagination Leg Magic Moment Painter People Put Recognize Sense Table Will Work

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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

Topics: Considering Following Madness May Me Morning Other Paint Seems Something Than Up Wake Wake Up

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

~Frank Auerbach

Topics: Cope Ideally Material More Possibly Should Than

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

~Frank Auerbach

Topics: Behaves Crisis Having How Program Real Style

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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

Topics: Any Arises Behave Brought Certain Certain Way Desperate Fact Painter Person Situation Style Unity Way Will Work

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Artist

Born: April 19th, 1931

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