I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument.

- Frank Auerbach

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

Falsehood always punishes itself.

- Frank Auerbach

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

- Frank Auerbach

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.

- Frank Auerbach

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

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

- Frank Auerbach

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

- Frank Auerbach

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 Auerbach