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