Howard Hodgkin Quotes

I have a hard time repeating myself.

We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall.

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

I was always annoyed by too much explaining.

My 12-year-old daughter said to me, "Enough with the subtitles, Daddy, for crying out loud." Because they always seem to cloud the issue rather than clarify it.

Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.

When I tell a child something the first time, I'm nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

It's pretty frustrating waiting for anything.

Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act like I know what they're talking about, or sit on set with somebody and they'll be trying to explain something and not using layman's terms and I'll just say, "Hey, excuse me, what do you mean by that? Explain to me so I just understand."

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

What the hell is wrong with him now?

Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle.

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.

Barely awake and already starting in with the questions.You were alot easier to take when you were sleeping." - Rio to Dylan

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn’t quite discern which.

Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.