"A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid."

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Howard Hodgkin

#People Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Placid Quotes

“My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for my art. My work was just drawings. They weren't done with any aspirations of becoming a part of punk scene. They weren't about punk. They were just collections of drawings, some of which I xeroxed and sold.”

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“I think we waste a lot of time trying to convince other people that we're right. A lot of times we don't actually care what another person thinks, we just want to say what we think. To hear it reflected back to us and that we're okay, to hear that we have been understood and that we're correct - so that we can continue to be who we are in the ways we've been being, and we have nothing to feel bad about and everything is just fine. Even if what we're talking about is, like, police brutality.”
“I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.”
“Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.”
“I had the luck of having an obedient body.”
“The key moments in your life are when you realize how exciting music can be, like when you hear Nevermind for the first time. I grew up in the '70s and '80s. I was introduced to hip-hop when it first came out. Hip-hop music will always be my first love. That's why I love playing the drums. Any day of the week, I would rather listen to a hip-hop album than a rock album.”
“To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.”
“People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.”

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