Famous quote by Howard Hodgkin

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"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object"

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This quote is written / told by Howard Hodgkin somewhere between August 6, 1932 and today. He/she was a famous Artist from United Kingdom. The author also have 25 other quotes.

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"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary"

"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture"

"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality"

"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame"

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"

"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting"

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course"

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum"