Howard Hodgkin Painting Quotations

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

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.

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.