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Frances Hodgkins Quotes

1869–1947 New Zealand

Frances Mary Hodgkins (28 April 1869 in Dunedin - 13 May 1947) was a Modernist New Zealand landscape painter and textile designer. She attended Dunedin School of Art, worked as an art teacher and later studied in England.

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"Painting reduces me to tears and misery: peaks of ecstasy, depths of disillusion..."

1895: "I am slowly settling down to an oldmaidship, and I have only one prominent idea and that is that nothing will interfere between me and my work."

To her mother, 1921: "Don't let N Zealand wait to put up a memorial tablet to my memory—let her help me now whilst I am working at work that I hope will live after me."

1912: "I was born in Dunedin; we were an English family in a Scottish settlement."

"But au fond-deep in my work-I am steadfast and steady as a rock... My present work is consistent-I shall sink or swim by it-I think swim-."

To her brother, August 1940: "My aspect of the family talent, or curse? has taken the form of a deep intellectual experience, a force which has given me no rest or peace but infinite joy and sometimes even rapture."

To Dorothy Kate Richmond, 1903: "Come to Tetuan. Come—catch the next steamer, cancel all engagements, chuck the studio let everything go to the winds only come without a moment's delay and value for yourself all the dreams of beauty colour and sunshine..."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frances Hodgkins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.