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...

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.

communication artist feelings

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

way impossible painting

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.

finishing

My pictures really finish themselves.

painting endangered-species painter

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

eye long gleam

It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.

thinking

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

teamwork self want

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.