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.
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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
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
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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.
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Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.
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