Quote by Frank Auerbach
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize i

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 painters imagination. – 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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You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain

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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. – Albert Einstein

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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. – Edgar Allan Poe

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On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldnt observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer. – Bobby Seale

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