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Frank Auerbach

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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


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


— Frank Auerbach


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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


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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


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


— Frank Auerbach


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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


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About Frank Auerbach

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Did you know about Frank Auerbach?

From 1955 he began teaching in secondary schools but quickly moved into the visiting tutor circuit at numerous art schools including Ravensbourne Ealing Sidcup and the Slade School of Art. " This simple statement belies the intensity of the relationship that develops between Auerbach and his subjects which results in an astonishing desire to produce an image the artist considers 'right'. In Britain Auerbach became a pupil at Bunce Court School near Faversham in Kent where he excelled in not only art but also drama classes.

He has been a naturalised British citizen since 1947.

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