Howard Hodgkin Quotes

Step by step, the road is long, but at the end you can touch a star.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

If you can't do something today, it will happen tomorrow or day after. If you are physically healthy and keep trying to achieve your goals, you will achieve what you want sooner or later.

You have to keep performing and keep showing people that you are capable of playing at the higher league. Once you get that sniff, you never look back.

There's some days you start to think, 'When is my chance going to come?' As a professional, you always have that at the back of your mind.

I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.

That's the way it should be: there has to be a drive to constantly improve.

Celebrate the excitement of trying build something new and wonderful.

I always want to prove that I've improved.

I haven't knocked all the doors I need to knock down, but I can see it happening more and more. It will just take more perseverance and work.

Migos ain't stopping. We're gonna keep getting better and better.

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us.

Endure the journey that you take to reach your top moment. You might not get there right now but when you do, remember what you did to get there.

I'm tired of hearing all this talk from people who don't understand the process of hard work-like little kids in the back seat asking 'Are we there yet?' Get where you're going 1 mile-marker at a time.

My parents always told me I could do anything, but never told me how long it would take

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.

All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.