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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of pursuing one's passion and creativity each day as life is uncertain.
In this quote, Frank Auerbach expresses the idea that life is fleeting and unpredictable, which makes it essential to engage in one's true passion—painting, in his case—every day. He suggests that choosing not to embrace one's creative calling feels irrational in the face of life's uncertainties, urging individuals to prioritize their passions amid the unpredictability of existence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about following your dreams, you could use this quote to highlight the importance of pursuing one's passion.
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.
I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy
Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.
We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.
I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
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