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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.

- Howard Hodgkin
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I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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