Howard Hodgkin
Howard Hodgkin
Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH CBE is a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth6 August 1932
art historical periods
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
thinking artist demand
A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.
thinking looks wells
I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?
people wish expected
I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.
say-anything able use
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.
gallery soothing copies
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
artist persons isolated
I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.