Howard Hodgkin

I hate painting. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#i #painting

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

— Howard Hodgkin

#how #i #i do #i think #look

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

#exasperated #got #i #interviewed #kept

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

— Howard Hodgkin

#i #i do #i think #often #think

I think words come between the spectator and the picture. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#come #i #i think #picture #spectator

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#individually #made #marks #physically #pictures

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

— Howard Hodgkin

#artists #envious #few #good #i

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. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#any #artist #because #criticism #critics

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

— Howard Hodgkin

#england #like #look #morally #surroundings

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

#art world #been #coherent #kind #minute