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

— Edward Hopper

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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

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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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Nobody's interested in sweetness and light. ↗

— Hedda Hopper

#light #nobody #sweetness

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

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All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#chooses #compass #country #country music #cowboy

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#class #early #early age #everything #go

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. ↗

— Horace

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ↗

— Horace

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Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. ↗

— Horace

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