Frank Auerbach quote: "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."

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

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a ...
FRANK AUERBACH

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation...
FRANK AUERBACH

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

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that...
FRANK AUERBACH

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.
FRANK AUERBACH

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living t...
FRANK AUERBACH

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a de...
FRANK AUERBACH

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finishe...
FRANK AUERBACH

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of livi...
FRANK AUERBACH

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a ...
FRANK AUERBACH

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
-AUERBACH

The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.
DAN AUERBACH

You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
DAN AUERBACH

I'm really not worried about what fans think.
DAN AUERBACH

You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, whic...
DAN AUERBACH

Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all...
DAN AUERBACH

Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilit...
DAN AUERBACH

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always goin...
DAN AUERBACH

I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my da...
DAN AUERBACH

You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from...
DAN AUERBACH

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
DAN AUERBACH

I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to ...
DAN AUERBACH

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record ...
DAN AUERBACH

I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really op...
DAN AUERBACH

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music loude...
DAN AUERBACH

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and ...
DAN AUERBACH

I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Mar...
DAN AUERBACH

I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not marrie...
DAN AUERBACH

Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's de...
DAN AUERBACH

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
DAN AUERBACH

When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in son...
DAN AUERBACH

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the sin...
DAN AUERBACH

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the ...
DAN AUERBACH

It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt...
DAN AUERBACH

My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cl...
DAN AUERBACH

I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
DAN AUERBACH

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
RED AUERBACH

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
RED AUERBACH

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
RED AUERBACH

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
RED AUERBACH

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while fo...
RED AUERBACH

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while f...
RED AUERBACH

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
RED AUERBACH

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a ...
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a ...
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't g...
DAN AUERBACH

Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?
DAN AUERBACH

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young m...
ERICH AUERBACH

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
RED AUERBACH

Phil is obviously a good coach. You don't win that many games without being a damn good coach, ... R...
RED AUERBACH

That's something I don't want to get into. I'm here. That's what counts.
RED AUERBACH

Most of your great coaches do some teaching and developing of players. Phil may be able to do it, bu...
RED AUERBACH

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap...
RED AUERBACH

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
RED AUERBACH

Just do what you do best.
RED AUERBACH

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that ‘man was made to reason, woman to feel.’ Per...
EMILY AUERBACH

Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self...
EMILY AUERBACH

Eudora Welty singles out for praise Austen's "habit of seeing both sides of her own subject - of see...
EMILY AUERBACH

We have too much of a shell game going on at ICANN today.
KARL AUERBACH

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is...
DAN AUERBACH

People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture...
DAN AUERBACH

I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.
DAN AUERBACH

Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don&#...
DAN AUERBACH

I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
DAN AUERBACH

The Internet is stuck in the flower-power days of the '60s during which people thought the world wou...
KARL AUERBACH

This budget has grave implications for scientific research to combat HIV and AIDS. Bluntly put, this...
JUDY AUERBACH

The administration and Congress made a decision to cut spending and increase tax relief for wealthy ...
JUDY AUERBACH

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the techniqu...
ERICH AUERBACH

boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
FRANK

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to...
FRANK IERO

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I...
FRANK SINATRA

The best revenge is massive success.
FRANK SINATRA

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
FRANK ZAPPA

Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think abou...
ZE FRANK

I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and ...
ZE FRANK

We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see w...
ZE FRANK

For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
ZE FRANK

If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'...
ZE FRANK

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your...
ZE FRANK

YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde...
ZE FRANK

I'm fascinated by simple joy.
ZE FRANK

We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't...
ZE FRANK

What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink...
ZE FRANK

I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
ZE FRANK

I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-...
ZE FRANK

In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's plat...
ZE FRANK

Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusiv...
ZE FRANK

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
ZE FRANK

Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to...
ZE FRANK

The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelie...
ZE FRANK

When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla...
ZE FRANK

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ...
ZE FRANK

I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
ZE FRANK

The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
ZE FRANK

I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
ZE FRANK

Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
ZE FRANK

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
ZE FRANK

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
FRANK CRANE

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but yo...
FRANK OCEAN

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY

There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.
FRANK BRUNO

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
ANNE FRANK

I live in a crazy time.
ANNE FRANK

For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identi...
GARY FRANK

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxe...
FRANK SHORTER

Don't follow trends, start trends.
FRANK CAPRA

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
FRANK DANE

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
FRANK ZAPPA

I was a thug.
FRANK OCEAN

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
FRANK CRANE

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with t...
FRANK OCEAN

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
FRANK LANE

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
FRANK SINATRA

I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too ...
OTTO FRANK

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but ...
OTTO FRANK

I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too ...
FRANK KEATING

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
FRANK BUTLER

We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the c...
GARY FRANK

Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and th...
GARY FRANK

When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his ...
GARY FRANK

The fact is that Superman isn't around because he is the oldest superhero. He's still around...
GARY FRANK

We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin...
GARY FRANK

I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of ...
GARY FRANK

I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. ...
GARY FRANK

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ...
THOMAS FRANK

We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got ...
FRANK QUATTRONE

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to...
FRANK STELLA

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until i...
FRANK YERBY

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over h...
FRANK MILLER

Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Ba...
FRANK DEFORD

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing...
FRANK RICH

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the la...
FRANK TEBBETS

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
FRANK SINATRA

I'm gonna live till I die.
FRANK SINATRA

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
BARNEY FRANK

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the fi...
BARNEY FRANK

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation an...
BARNEY FRANK

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
BARNEY FRANK

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in Americ...
BARNEY FRANK

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people ma...
BARNEY FRANK

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
BARNEY FRANK

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, b...
BARNEY FRANK

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily ...
BARNEY FRANK

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share...
BARNEY FRANK

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help peop...
BARNEY FRANK

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
BARNEY FRANK

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perf...
BARNEY FRANK

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.
BARNEY FRANK

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produ...
BARNEY FRANK

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the R...
BARNEY FRANK

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and th...
BARNEY FRANK

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they w...
BARNEY FRANK

Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.
FRANK ROONEY

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than tha...
ANNE FRANK

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and ...
ANNE FRANK

the conversion of Anne Frank into usable goods.
ANNE FRANK

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
FRANK DANE

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
FRANK GEHRY

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the sam...
FRANK MILLER

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to ...
FRANK MCCOURT

I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it an...
FRANK ABAGNALE

Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and ...
FRANK DEFORD

Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wis...
THOMAS FRANK

You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yoursel...
FRANK ABAGNALE

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city o...
FRANK BLACK

The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the g...
THOMAS FRANK

I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business Sc...
FRANK QUATTRONE

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake ...
FRANK RICH

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
FRANK SINATRA

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.
FRANK SINATRA

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chanc...
FRANK SINATRA

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
FRANK SINATRA

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I ...
FRANK SINATRA

There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, ...
FRANK SINATRA

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.
FRANK SINATRA

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.
FRANK SINATRA

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm hone...
FRANK SINATRA

Don't get even, get mad.
FRANK SINATRA

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
FRANK SINATRA

I'm gonna live till I die.
FRANK SINATRA

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
FRANK SINATRA

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate...
FRANK OCEAN

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.
FRANK OCEAN

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.

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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.

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