Top 48 Hodgkin Quotes
#1. There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's.
Suzanne Somers
#2. Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy ... The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma.
Ralph W. Moss
#3. Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer.
Delta Goodrem
#4. The Iowa Women's Health Study, which has followed more than 35,000 women for decades, found eating more broccoli, cauliflower, kale and other cruciferous vegetables was associated with a lower risk of getting non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the first place.
Michael Greger
#5. My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.
Howard Hodgkin
#7. The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.
Alan Hodgkin
#8. The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.
Howard Hodgkin
#9. The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.
Dorothy Hodgkin
#10. I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.
Howard Hodgkin
#11. When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
Howard Hodgkin
#12. I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
Howard Hodgkin
#13. 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.
Howard Hodgkin
#15. 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.
Howard Hodgkin
#16. I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
Howard Hodgkin
#17. A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.
Dorothy Hodgkin
#18. I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
Howard Hodgkin
#19. Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.
Howard Hodgkin
#20. A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
Howard Hodgkin
#21. If everyone followed the rules, we wouldn't be human ... And I'd choose that than being a Robot over any day.
Jet Raymond Hodgkin
#22. I used to say the evening that I developed the first x-ray photograph I took of insulin in 1935 was the most exciting moment of my life. But the Saturday afternoon in late July 1969, when we realized that the insulin electron density map was interpretable, runs that moment very close.
Dorothy Hodgkin
#23. I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.
Howard Hodgkin
#24. Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?
Dorothy Hodgkin
#25. You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
Howard Hodgkin
#27. In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.
Howard Hodgkin
#28. I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them.
Dorothy Hodgkin
#29. I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.
Howard Hodgkin
#30. A lot of people ... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.
Howard Hodgkin
#31. It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.
Howard Hodgkin
#32. I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'
Howard Hodgkin
#33. I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'
Dorothy Hodgkin
#34. 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?'
Howard Hodgkin
#35. I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.
Howard Hodgkin
#36. Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.
Howard Hodgkin
#37. I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
Howard Hodgkin
#39. A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.
Howard Hodgkin
#40. It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.
Howard Hodgkin
#41. I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.
Howard Hodgkin
#42. Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.
Howard Hodgkin
#44. I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
Howard Hodgkin
#45. To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.
Howard Hodgkin
#46. My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
Howard Hodgkin
#47. Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.
Howard Hodgkin
#48. In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
Howard Hodgkin
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