Frank Auerbach Quotes

We have a ridiculous amount of material.

Too much is the same as not enough.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

There's no shortage of material in life.

Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.

My relief of mind would be tremendous if we just had too much of something besides patriotism and spirit.

There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.

Where there is too much, something is missing.

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

The whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Too much is just enough.

Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?

Creativity is a renewable resource.

The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough.