"I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period."

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Howard Hodgkin

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“(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)”
“I have a feeling only for shadows”
“There's more to light than the opposite of dark.”
“Enduringly successful people, many of whom live a life that's a gift to the world, don't raise balance as a major issue-not because they had it masterfully handled, but because they were all busy doing what mattered to them.”

Source : Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.53, Pearson Education
“The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.”
“If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences appreciate something that is distinctive and different. Everyone always throws out this figure, 'Jazz is now down to three percent of the total record sales.' So does that mean it is not important? I think if we agree that human culture itself is important, then I think those three percent take on a greater significance.”
“Find a pile of gold and sit on it.”
“When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.”

Source : "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

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