"Matisse was very clear about saying that you……" — Howard Hodgkin
"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."
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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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