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My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.
Howard Hodgkin
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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.
Howard Hodgkin
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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.
Howard Hodgkin
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I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
Howard Hodgkin
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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.
Howard Hodgkin
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When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
Howard Hodgkin
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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.
Howard Hodgkin
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I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'
Howard Hodgkin
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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 paintings.
Howard Hodgkin
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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 picture?'
Howard Hodgkin
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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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I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
Howard Hodgkin
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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 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.
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