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Howard Hodgkin

"My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything."

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Donna Grant

"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

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Donna Grant

"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."

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Donna Grant

"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."

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Donna Grant

"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."

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Donna Grant

"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."

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Donna Grant

"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"

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Donna Grant

"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."

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Donna Grant

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

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Donna Grant

"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."

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Donna Grant

"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."

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Howard Hodgkin
"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."

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Howard Hodgkin
"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."

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

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Howard Hodgkin
"I am isolated as an artist, not as a person."

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

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Howard Hodgkin
"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

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Howard Hodgkin
"I think words come between the spectator and the picture."

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

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