Howard Hodgkin Quotes
Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.
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.
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.