I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
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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
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
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
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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I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.
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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.
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