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