No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
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Well, I have a very simple method of painting.Edward Hopper
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
Edward Hopper
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
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.
Edward Hopper
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
Edward Hopper
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
Edward Hopper
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