“The sublimity of color in Hodgkin's pictures can be thought of as, first of all, expressive of gratitude — for the world that resists and survives the ego and its discontents.”

—  Susan Sontag

"About Hodgkin," from Howard Hodgkin Paintings (1995), p. 109

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