"I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings."

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Howard Hodgkin

#Artist Quotes #Looks Quotes #Painting Quotes

“I'm thinking of killing everyone whose name is a palindrome”
“I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.”
“Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.”
“All of us here are servants of the reading public. I am the head of the servants and I must show that I know better than any of the servants where the materials are found. I want to show that our service here is efficient and that we are really working to serve.”

Source : "Filipinos in History, Vol. 2" by National Historical Institute of the Philippines, 1989.
“She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.134, Vintage
“I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.”
“It would be easy for this conflict to slip off the political agenda given how long it has been going on but for the sake of the people of Nepal for whom it is a daily tragic reality, the world must remain engaged and keep up the pressure on the government and the Maoists.”
“While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.”

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