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“I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.”

Howard Hodgkin

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My pictures really finish themselves.

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

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

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

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I never think that anything I do is courageous.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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