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Howard Hodgkin

"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."

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"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."

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"Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much."

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

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"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."

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"Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not."

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"I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'."

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"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."

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"While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying."

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"Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake."

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"Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually."

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"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
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"I am isolated as an artist, not as a person."
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