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

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

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

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
Howard Hodgkin

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

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
Howard Hodgkin