British - Artist | August 6, 1932 -
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
Howard Hodgkin
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Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.
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I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.
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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 only way you'd get any feedback.
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My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
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I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
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I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
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I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.
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You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
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I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.
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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.
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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.
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