#pain

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. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#almost #along #any #becomes #business

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

— Edward Hopper

#always #been #exact #impression #intimate

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. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#art #conception #contemporary #decorative #deny

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. ↗

— Horace

#anything #been #conceded #daring #fancy

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain. ↗

— Roy Horn

#imitation #pain #sincerest #sincerest form

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time. ↗

— Lena Horne

#bad #began #else #everybody #everybody else

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#artist #beautiful #because #complete #i

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#backs #branded #day #foreheads #give

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#landscape #novel #painting #psychoanalysis #sex

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#man #pain #suffers