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Edward Hopper

"I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions."

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"I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions."

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"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far."

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"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."
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"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."
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"Well, I have a very simple method of painting."
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"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
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"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
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"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method."
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"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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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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"If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county."
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"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
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