Top 26 Quotes by Howard Hodgkin

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

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.

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

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'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.

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

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

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

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.