I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.
Howard HodgkinIn 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 HodgkinYou keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
Howard HodgkinMy friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
Howard Hodgkin