Howard Hodgkin

"It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid."

"I never think that anything I do is courageous."

"He is highly emotional. It is not an affectation. His emotions are very close to the surface and are there in the depth of colour he uses in his paintings."

"I ask the obvious question to this man who often spends years on each of his paintings: "How do you know when a painting is finished?" His response: "The picture tells you.""