Howard Hodgkin Quotes

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

Words are slippery and thoughts are vicious.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Sound comes out of a life experience.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.