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Artist Quotes by 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 any…
- 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…
- I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
- 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…
- I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
- The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu