"It is simply impossible to control a large……" — Howard Hodgkin
"It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one."
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Howard Hodgkin
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34 Quotes by Howard Hodgkin
Howard Hodgkin has 34 quotes on this site.
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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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More Control Quotes
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
— Isaac Asimov
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
— Margaret Atwood
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path…
— Irving Babbitt
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
— Lord Acton
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality…
— Lord Acton
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Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it.…
— Michael Badnarik
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
— Red Adair
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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
— Abu Bakr
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