In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
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I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.Edward Hopper
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
Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
Edward Hopper
This direction is sterile and without hope to those who wish to give painting a richer and more human meaning and a wider scope.
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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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