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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
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" A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object. "
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" 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. "
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" Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. "
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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. "
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" I am isolated as an artist, not as a person. "
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" 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. "
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" My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. "
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" I think words come between the spectator and the picture. "
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" I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?' "
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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. "
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" I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing. "
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" You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture. "
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" In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like. "
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" I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously. "
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" I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me. "
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