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.
Frank AuerbachTo 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 AuerbachI 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