Howard Hodgkin Quotes

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• The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Communication, Artist, Feelings

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• I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Teamwork, Self, Want

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• When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Looks, Painting, Surprising

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• You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Winning, Subjects

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• I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Artist, Isolated, Persons

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• Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Lying, Passion, Next

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• A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

  Howard Hodgkin

  People, Emotion, Placid

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• I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Thinking, Spectators

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• A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Back When, Painting, Made

  Howard Hodgkin, Enrique Juncosa, Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland), Tate Britain (Gallery), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2006). “Writers on Howard Hodgkin”, Tate

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• To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Painting, Painter, Endangered Species

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• I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?

  Howard Hodgkin

  Thinking, Looks, Wells

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• I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Artist, Looks, Painting

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• I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

  Howard Hodgkin

  People, Wish, Expected

  Interview with Antony Peattie, howard-hodgkin.com. October 19, 1993.

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• I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Artist, Portraits, Envious

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• It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.

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  Way, Impossible, Painting

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• My pictures really finish themselves.

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  Finishing

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• Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Too Much, Way, Extravagance

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• I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Artist, Criticism, Way

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• It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.

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  Eye, Long, Gleam

  "Howard Hodgkin: the Later, Greater Hodgkin". Interview with Karen Wright, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 05, 2008.

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• I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

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  Gallery, Soothing, Copies

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• The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Technique, Century, Surface

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• I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Thinking, Paint, Activity

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• I never think that anything I do is courageous.

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  Thinking, Courageous

  "Howard Hodgkin: the later, greater Hodgkin". Interview with Karen Wright, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 5, 2008.

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• My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

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  Thinking, Rooms, Painter

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• A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Artist, Thinking, Energy

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