Howard Hodgkin Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

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

  Howard Hodgkin

  Painting, Painter, Endangered Species

• 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

• 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

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

  Howard Hodgkin

  Looks, Painting, Surprising

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

  Howard Hodgkin

  Way, Impossible, Painting

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