Top 26 Quotes by Howard Hodgkin

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 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?'

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

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

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.

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.