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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
"An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine."
Explore more quotes by Edward Hopper
"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."
"After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface."
"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."
"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."
"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world."
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