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

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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.

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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.

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I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

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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.

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

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I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

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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.

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

~Howard Hodgkin

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Artist

Born: August 6th, 1932

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