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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."
"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."
"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."
Explore more quotes by Howard Hodgkin
"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."
"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."
"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 don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period."
"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."
"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."
"I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'"
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