Howard Hodgkin Quotes

Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it was fluid, and it is. And even though I still admire literature as the superior art form, I have to admit that art, for me, that's it; that's what I'm good at, and that's what I should be concentrating on.

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

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.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.

I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

I loved to draw. I always did. I started when I was about five years old.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.