Howard Hodgkin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Howard Hodgkin quotes and sayings page 2 (artist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 26 we have.
“Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.”
“A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.”
“I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.”
“I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.”
“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?'”
“I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.”
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