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Howard Hodgkin Biography

Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH CBE (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction.

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I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?

Look, Looks, Pictures, Think, Thinking, Wells

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

Balancing, Picture, Subjects, Turned, Winning, Wins

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

Collect, Eat, Extravagance, Reason, Too Much, Way

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

England, Like, Looks, Thought, Worry

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

Lies, Lying, Mark, Next, Passion

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.

15Th, Century, Recedes, Surface, Technique

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

Artist, Isolated, Person, Persons

My pictures really finish themselves.

Finish, Finishing, Pictures

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

Courageous, Think, Thinking

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.

Art, Historian, Historical, Periods, See, Work

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

Endangered, Endangered Species, Painter, Painting, Part, Small

A lot of people. . . are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

Afraid, Emotion, Emotions, People, Placid

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

Finish, Looks, Painting, Surprising, Usually

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.

Artist, Criticism, Studio, Vulnerable, Way

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

Back When, Finished, Made, Object, Painting, Subject

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.

Impossible, Large, Painting, Small, Way

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

Copies, Gallery, National, Old, Prose, Soothing

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.

Able, Say, Say Anything, Use, Wouldnt

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

Extraneous, Think, Thinking, Words

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

Artist, Communicate, Communication, Feelings, Level, World

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