Howard Hodgkin Quotes

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

I started painting when I was in high school.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

I found I have to stay painting.

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

Painting is a hobby for me.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

I've been painting since I was a kid.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

I'm a super creative person and have always loved drawing and painting since I was super young, but makeup was a new avenue for me.

The more time goes by, the more I hate Ke$ha.

Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, 'What do you believe? What do you think? What do you feel?' and if you look at a painting and it makes you feel nothing, that's a feeling as well.

I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.

I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.

When you go back to the days when I was studying how to paint, some of the things that excited me most was to go into the Huntington Library and Gardens and to see the amazing pictures of the landed gentry.