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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."
Explore more quotes by 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 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 destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."
"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."
"The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style."
"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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