46 Quotes by Howard Hodgkin

A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

My pictures really finish themselves.

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.

I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It’s a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I’m one of nature’s shoppers.