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.
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.
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.
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.
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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