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Frank Auerbach Quotes

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

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Type:
Artist Quotes
Category:
German Artist Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 19, 1931
Nationality:
German
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