46 Quotes by Howard Hodgkin

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 wouldnt be able to say anything.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.