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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You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.Howard Hodgkin
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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In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
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My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.
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I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.
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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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