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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

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

— Howard Hodgkin

#england #like #look #morally #surroundings

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#i #i think #just #our #painters

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

#century #changed #did #hardly #just

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#else #finish #i #looks #me

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#because #into #keep #picture #subject

But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#beginning #everything #extremely #felt #finished

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#anything #get #i #i do #out

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love. ↗

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#another #believe #dread #fear #i