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Howard Hodgkin

British

August 6, 1932

Artist

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

Tags: Think I Think Often

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I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

Tags: Think I Think Come

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

Tags: You Because Then

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

Tags: Think Just Really

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?'

Tags: You Want Got

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.

Tags: Just Much Did

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.

Tags: Great Nature Been

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.

Tags: Work Get Very