"I look at my pictures, and I think,……" — Howard Hodgkin

"I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?"

— Howard Hodgkin

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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.
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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