Howard Hodgkin

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#been #blow #clear #explain #forgotten

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

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#anything #i #language #lost #say

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