About Howard Hodgkin: Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin is a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction.
I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.
I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.
