Quotes by '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...

thinking spectators

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

thinking rooms painter

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

thinking

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

thinking paint activity

I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.

thinking courageous

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

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?

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.

artist portraits envious

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

technique surface century

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.