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You 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…
- You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
- Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.
- I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
- I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'
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