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 HodgkinYou keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
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