Howard Hodgkin Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.