Writers on Howard Hodgkin

Edited by Enrique Juncosa
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Tate Publishing, 2006

About Hodgkin

(First published in Howard Hodgkin Painting, Abrams, Inc., 1995)
Susan Sontag

2, p 100

As Paul Valéry wrote in 1932 (it's the first sentence of 'About Corot'): 'One must always apologize for talking about painting'. [...] Painting, like music and danse, does not signify in the verbal sense; what you see is what you get.

7, p 104

An emotion is not an impression.

8, p 104

'I an a representational painter, but not a painter of appearances'[...]. 'I paint representational pictures of emotional situations'.

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