I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
From Howard Hodgkin
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'
In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
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.
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.
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.
I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
3 perspectives
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