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"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."

Edward Hopper, American Artist

Varnish, France

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"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."

Edward Hopper, American Artist

Varnish, France

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"In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period."

"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 only real influence I've ever had was myself."

"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."

"I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking."

"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable."

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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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