Quotes Howard Hodgkin

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been c...

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when wha...

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of bei...

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish ...

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person....

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I t...

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all....

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activ...

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothi...

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are ...

I hate painting....

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

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, '...

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do....

I think words come between the spectator and the picture....

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up o...

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and sti...

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work...

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry abou...

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in...

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow yo...

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters ...

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be...

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century...

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to ...