Top 26 Quotes by Howard Hodgkin

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

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

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

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.

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

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

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

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

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

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.