Language Use Quotes by Howard Hodgkin

My pictures really finish themselves.

— Howard Hodgkin

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

— Howard Hodgkin

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

— Howard Hodgkin

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

— Howard Hodgkin

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

— Howard Hodgkin

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

— Howard Hodgkin

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a…

— Howard Hodgkin

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

— Howard Hodgkin

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

— Howard Hodgkin

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

— Howard Hodgkin

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

— Howard Hodgkin

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.

— Howard Hodgkin

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

— Howard Hodgkin

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right…

— Howard Hodgkin

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…

— Howard Hodgkin