Quotes by Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin

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.

Artist

Energy

Thinking

A lot of people… are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

Emotion

People

Placid

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

Back When

Made

Painting

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.

Extravagance

Too Much

Way

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right – rather like Frankenstein’s monster.

Facts

Identity

Monsters

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

Expected

People

Wish

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

Artist

Isolated

Persons

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.

Artist

Looks

Painting

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.

Art

Historical

Periods

I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.

Activity

Paint

Thinking

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Copies

Courageous

Criticism

Emotion

Endangered Species

Energy

England

Envious

Expected

Extravagance

Eye

Facts

Feelings

Finishing

Gallery

Gleam

Historical

Identity

Impossible

Isolated

Long

Looks

Lying

Made

Monsters

New York

Paint

Painter

Painting

Passion

People

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Persons

Placid

Portraits

Rooms

Say Anything

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Quotes by Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin

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.

A lot of people… are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

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.

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right – rather like Frankenstein’s monster.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

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.

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.

I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.

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