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Inspirational Quotes by Howard Hodgkin
- A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
- I never think that anything I do is courageous.
- I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
- I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.
- I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?
- You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
- I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.
- I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
- My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
- When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
- It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.
- My pictures really finish themselves.
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