I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.
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. - Howard Hodgkin
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.
- Howard Hodgkin
Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them. - Howard Hodgkin
Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.
A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid. - Howard Hodgkin
A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.
I think words come between the spectator and the picture. - Howard Hodgkin
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else. - Howard Hodgkin
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient. - Howard Hodgkin
I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture. - Howard Hodgkin
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
I am isolated as an artist, not as a person. - Howard Hodgkin
I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling. - Howard Hodgkin
The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.
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