Tag: Edward Hopper

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Work

Edward Hopper | work

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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trust

Edward Hopper | trust

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

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Nature

Edward Hopper | nature

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

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Nature

Edward Hopper | nature

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature’s phenomena before it can again become great.

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Nature

Edward Hopper | nature

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

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Nature

Edward Hopper | nature

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

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Edward Hopper | imagination

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

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funny

Edward Hopper | funny

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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business

Edward Hopper | business

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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art

Quote from Edward Hopper | art

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