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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Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.Edward Hopper
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
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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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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.
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Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.
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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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