"When I finish a painting, it usually looks……" — Howard Hodgkin

"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else."

— 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…
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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