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"We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world."
"The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."
"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."
"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
"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."
"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
"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."
"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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