46 Quotes by Howard Hodgkin

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

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

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

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

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?'

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.