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

— Howard Hodgkin

As quoted in "Howard Hodgkin: the later, greater Hodgkin" by Karen Wright, in The Telegraph (5 April 2008) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3672299/Howard-Hodgkin-the-later-greater-Hodgkin.html

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