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Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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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. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#artist #expression #great #great art #his

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ↗

— Douglas Horton

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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

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

— Edward Hopper

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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. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#any #attempt #character #deny #french

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#concern #innovations #itself #limited #modern

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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It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band. ↗

— Andy Summers

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