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Top 25 Howard Hodgkin Quotes (2025 Update)

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.”

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

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.”

2. “It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.”

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.”

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

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.”

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

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “I think words come between the spectator and the picture.”

5. “I think words come between the spectator and the picture.”

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.”

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

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.”

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

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.”

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

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject’s turned into the picture.”

11. “You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject’s turned into the picture.”

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “My pictures really finish themselves.”

12. “My pictures really finish themselves.”

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Howard Hodgkin Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.”

14. “I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.”

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.”

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

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Howard Hodgkin Quote: “My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.”

16. “My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.”

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.”

17. “I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.”

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.”

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

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Howard Hodgkin Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “In England, it’s thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.”

23. “In England, it’s thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.”

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.”

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

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.”

26. “I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.”

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “I’m very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.”

27. “I’m very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.”

— Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin Quote: “I never think that anything I do is courageous.”

28. “I never think that anything I do is courageous.”

— Howard Hodgkin

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