#paint

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

— Edward Hopper

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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. ↗

— 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

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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

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

— Robert Hughes

#landscape #novel #painting #psychoanalysis #sex

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going. ↗

— Reed Hundt

#canvas #exactly #get #give #going

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot. ↗

— Evan Hunter

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My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. ↗

— John Hurt

#ask #far #felt #insecure #made

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#i #i am #indian #painter

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead. ↗

— M. F. Husain

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