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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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