"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues,……" — Howard Hodgkin
"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
—
Howard Hodgkin
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
34 Quotes by Howard Hodgkin
Howard Hodgkin has 34 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the…
-
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back…
-
I never think that anything I do is courageous.
-
Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing…
-
Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.
-
Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat…
-
I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and…
-
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of…
-
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists.…
-
I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
-
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.
-
I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to…
See all 34 quotes by Howard Hodgkin »
More Catalogues Quotes
This quote is filed under Catalogues Quotes,
one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues…
— Katharine Sergeant Angell White
-
There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other…
— Hal Borland
-
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for…
— Kary Mullis
-
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to…
— Greg Egan
-
You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
— Cameron Diaz
-
Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like…
— Stephen Jay Gould
-
The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's…
— Vivian Campbell
-
As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better…
— James McGreevey
-
In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the…
— Peter York
-
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
— Bertrand Russell
-
My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's.
— Brooke Shields
-
There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed…
— Tom Robbins
See all 18 Catalogues Quotes »