I’m very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. Howard Hodgkin Read Quote
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?’ Howard Hodgkin Read Quote
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute. Howard Hodgkin Read Quote
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. Howard Hodgkin Read Quote
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. Howard Hodgkin Read Quote
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject’s turned into the picture. Howard Hodgkin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Howard Hodgkin Read Quote
Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. Howard Hodgkin Read Quote
