” 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. “
” I don’t think you can lightly paint a picture. It’s an activity I take very seriously. “
” I think words come between the spectator and the picture. “
” I look at my pictures, and I think, ‘Well, how did I do that?’ “
” I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient. “
” You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject’s turned into the picture. “
” 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 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? “
All 8 Howard Hodgkin Quotes about Picture in picture
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