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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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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... →

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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... →

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I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.

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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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I hate painting.

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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... →

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I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

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In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

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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.

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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.

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My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

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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 vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get... →

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