Howard Hodgkin Quotes

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Howard Hodgkin

Profession : Artist

Birth : August 6, 1932

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.

Howard Hodgkin

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.

Howard Hodgkin

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

Howard Hodgkin

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?'

Howard Hodgkin

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

Howard Hodgkin