Howard Hodgkin Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Technique, Century, Surface

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• 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.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Identity, Facts, Monsters

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• 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, New York, School

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• A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Artist, Thinking, Energy

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

  Howard Hodgkin

  Thinking

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• I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Art, Historical, Periods

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