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My pictures really finish themselves.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
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I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Artist
Isolated
Persons
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I never think that anything I do is courageous.
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Courageous
Thinking
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I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.
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I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
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Spectators
Thinking
Spectator
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I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Looks
Thinking
Wells
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I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'
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Pictures
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To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Endangered Species
Painter
Painting
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Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Lying
Next
Passion
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It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Eye
Gleam
Long
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I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Artist
Envious
Portraits
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When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Looks
Painting
Surprising
Anyone Else
Finish
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My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.
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Able
Say Anything
Use
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I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.
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Activity
Paint
Thinking
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I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Activity
Paint
Lightly
Seriously
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The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.
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Communication
Artist
Feelings
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In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
England
Looks
Surroundings
Worry
Suspect
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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.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Painter
Rooms
Thinking
Painters
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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.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
I Am Me Nothing
Category
Me I Am Nothing
Crack
Historically
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It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Impossible
Painting
Way
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I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Copies
Gallery
Prose
Soothing
Infinitely
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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.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Expected
People
Wish
Myself I Am Happy I Am
Devoutly
Pictures
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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.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Self
Self Sufficient
Teamwork
Want
Physically
Individually
Marks
Pictures
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A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
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Back When
Made
Painting
Caused
Object
Subject
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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.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Subjects
Winning
Picture
Balancing
Subject
Wins
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A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.
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Emotion
People
Placid
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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.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Century
Surface
Technique
Hardly
Just As Much
Pictures
Techniques
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Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.
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Blow
Forgotten
Yourself Your Own
Explain
Trumpet
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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?'
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Shopping
List
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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.
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Art
Historian
Historical
Overview
Periods
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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.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Collecting
Extravagance
Too Much
Way
Collect
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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.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Art
New York
Art World
Modern Art
School
Structure
Art World New
Nearly
Coherent
Minute
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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.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Artist
Looks
Painting
Contemporaries
Near
Pictures
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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.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Artist
Collectors
Energy
Illness
Thinking
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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.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Artist
Criticism
Feedback
Way
Studio
Recently
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Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.
Howard Hodgkin / Painter
Facts
Identity
Monsters
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