Artist Quote by Howard Hodgkin Download Open image “When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.” — Howard Hodgkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Finish Painting Looks Looks Surprising Painting Painting Usually Surprising
What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects. Don't make… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of… — William Scott Copy Share Image
Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same. — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work. — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure. — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously. — Howard Hodgkin 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 nearly a… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. — Howard Hodgkin 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 slightly forgotten. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid. — Howard Hodgkin 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 me. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
