However, in a 2013 interview he said he had become much more left wing and that capitalism has brought many good things but it has crossed a line. After his career as a journalist Hoogendijk was known as an art collector and trader. He founded and directed the arts magazine "Art & Value" after his retirement. Hoogendijk was married twice, he had three daughters from his first marriage and one daughter from his second marriage. During his second marriage, over thirty years before his death, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Hoogendijk was made Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau.