#paint

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. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#believe #canvas #emotions #force #great

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

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

#artist #began #draw #great #i

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 maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it. ↗

— John Hawkes

#art #better #better actor #come #end

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#humblest #nature #painter #scholar #scholars

Sunlight is painting. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#sunlight