#pain

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. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#contemporaries #dead #easier #get #i

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

— Howard Hodgkin

#i #lightly #paint #picture #seriously

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

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

— Howard Hodgkin

#else #finish #i #looks #me

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#landscape #novel #painting #psychoanalysis #sex

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#man #pain #suffers

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. ↗

— John Hurt

#ask #far #felt #insecure #made

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#i #i am #indian #painter

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#am #folk #i #i am #like

I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#expensive #going #him #i #i am