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1. "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
2. "I am isolated as an artist, not as a person." ~ Howard Hodgkin
3. "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
4. "I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me." ~ Howard Hodgkin
5. "I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing." ~ Howard Hodgkin
6. "You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture." ~ Howard Hodgkin
7. "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
8. "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
9. "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
10. "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
11. "I hate painting." ~ Howard Hodgkin
12. "I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'" ~ Howard Hodgkin
13. "I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'" ~ Howard Hodgkin
14. "I think that words are often extraneous to what I do." ~ Howard Hodgkin
15. "I think words come between the spectator and the picture." ~ Howard Hodgkin
16. "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
17. "I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits." ~ Howard Hodgkin
18. "In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like." ~ Howard Hodgkin
19. "My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms." ~ Howard Hodgkin
20. "My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything." ~ Howard Hodgkin
21. "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

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