I think words come between the spectator and the picture. - Howard Hodgkin

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If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (. . . ) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.

Howard Hodgkin

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

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I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

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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.

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

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I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

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The more I've reflected on that and asked Iraqi friends, the more I realize that the corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power. There's no core to what Michel Aflaq has to say that results in this. That was a key to looking at Michel Aflaq as a sideshow. He's the intellectual father of an ideology that no one probably ever believed in. At that point I began to appreciate him in a funny way.

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The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.

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