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26 quotes by Howard Hodgkin

Sir Howard Hodgkin 'Dinner at Smith Square', 1975-1979. Oil painting on board and wood support. Born Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin (1932-08-06) 6 August 1932 (age 82) London, United Kingdom Nationality British Education Camberwell Art School, Bath Academy of Art Known for Painting, Printmaking Awards Turner Prize (1985) Website Official site Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH, CBE (born 6 August 1932) is a British painter and printmaker....
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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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When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

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I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

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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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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... →

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I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

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I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

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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'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

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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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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 am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

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