You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
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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.Howard Hodgkin
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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.
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