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
artist portraits envious
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
art new-york school
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.
communication artist feelings
The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.
artist looks painting
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.
artist criticism way
I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.
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.
artist persons isolated
I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
kept
I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'
activity lightly
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
fit
I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.
blow clear slightly trumpet
Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.
looks painting surprising
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
thinking spectators
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.