"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?'"

Want,

55

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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?'"

Exlpore more Want quotes

"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Want,

"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Want,

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Want,

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Want,

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Want,

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Woody Allen, American Director

Want,

"They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Want,

"When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do."

Joel Coen, American Director

Want,

"It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something."

Brandon Boyd, American Musician

Want,

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Want,

Explore more quotes by Howard Hodgkin

"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."

Thought

"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."

Work

"In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute."

Art

"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."

Self

"I think that words are often extraneous to what I do."

Art

"I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits."

Art

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

Painting

"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."

Work

"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."

Art

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

Saying