"I am happy for people to talk about……" — Howard Hodgkin
"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."
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Howard Hodgkin
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34 Quotes by Howard Hodgkin
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I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the…
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A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back…
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I never think that anything I do is courageous.
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Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing…
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Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.
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Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat…
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I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and…
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The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of…
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I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists.…
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I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
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I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
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My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.
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No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods…
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Ever since Blessed Alan de la Roche re-established this devotion the voice of the people, which is the voice of…
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Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all…
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Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
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It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of…
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Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will…
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Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.
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I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms…
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But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.
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