To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. — Howard Hodgkin Artist Copy Share Image
It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid. — Howard Hodgkin Eye Copy Share Image
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously. — Howard Hodgkin Activity Copy Share Image
A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which… — Howard Hodgkin Calmer Copy Share Image
It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small… — Howard Hodgkin Artist Copy Share Image
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much… — Howard Hodgkin Art Copy Share Image
I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be… — Howard Hodgkin Am Copy Share Image
A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it… — Howard Hodgkin Art Copy Share Image
I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about… — Howard Hodgkin Expected Copy Share Image
Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its… — Howard Hodgkin Assuming Copy Share Image
I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way… — Howard Hodgkin Art Copy Share Image
Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been… — Howard Hodgkin About Copy Share Image
I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously. — Howard Hodgkin Activity Copy Share Image
I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's… — Howard Hodgkin Asking Copy Share Image
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. — Howard Hodgkin Artist Copy Share Image
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing. — Howard Hodgkin Copies Copy Share Image
In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like. — Howard Hodgkin England Copy Share Image
The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling. — Howard Hodgkin Art Copy Share Image
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else. — Howard Hodgkin Artist Copy Share Image
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. — Howard Hodgkin Art Copy Share Image
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was… — Howard Hodgkin Architecture Copy Share Image
Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them. — Howard Hodgkin Desire Copy Share Image
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 Made Copy Share Image
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything. — Howard Hodgkin Able Copy Share Image
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything. — Howard Hodgkin Able Copy Share Image
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an… — Howard Hodgkin Finished Copy Share Image
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture. — Howard Hodgkin Balancing Copy Share Image
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… — Howard Hodgkin Collect Copy Share Image
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures… — Howard Hodgkin 20th century Copy Share Image
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's… — Howard Hodgkin Art Copy Share Image
