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I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

Author: Howard Hodgkin - British Artist
  Words , Think , I Think , Picture


When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Author: Howard Hodgkin - British Artist
  Me , Looks , Painting , Finish


I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

Author: Howard Hodgkin - British Artist
  Up , Want , Things , Pictures


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.

Author: Howard Hodgkin - British Artist
  Just , Picture , Changed , Pictures


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

Author: Howard Hodgkin - British Artist
  Words , Think , I Think , Often


I hate painting.

Author: Howard Hodgkin - British Artist
  Hate , Painting


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.

Author: Howard Hodgkin - British Artist
  Look , Work , Dead , Pictures


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.

Author: Howard Hodgkin - British Artist
  See , Work , Art , Historical


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

Author: Howard Hodgkin - British Artist
  You , Think , Picture , Seriously


Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

Author: Howard Hodgkin - British Artist
  You , Yourself , Think , Saying


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