I hate painting.
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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.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.
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I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
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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.
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I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
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Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.
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