American - Artist | July 22, 1882 - May 15, 1967
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
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What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
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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.
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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.
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There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
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Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.
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More of me comes out when I improvise.
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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
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If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
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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.
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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.
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