"If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression."

Nature, Expression, Value

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"If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression."

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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"When I am in nature, my heart dances with butterflies and sings along with flowers."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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Explore more quotes by Edward Hopper

"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."

Reason, Words

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

Influence,

"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."

Present, Sensations

"I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it."

Trust,

"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."

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"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."

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"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."

Imagination, Invention

"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."

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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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