"The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed."

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Howard Hodgkin

#Technique Quotes #Century Quotes #Surface Quotes

“Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?”
“People are self-conscious at first. But it gets better as we kind of dance with each other... it's like a date, in a way. We get more comfortable together. The best pictures are usually the last ones.”
“Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.”
“Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.”
“I'm into books â€“ I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.”
“We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.”
“We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.”
“I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.”

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