Quote by Edward Hopper
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element

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

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In general it can be said that a nations art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people. – Edward Hopper

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Art
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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

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Art
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Its 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 thats my method. – Edward Hopper

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Business
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Imagination
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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination. – Karl Philipp Moritz

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Imagination

The strongest nation on earth is your imagi-nation. – Matt Furey

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Imagination

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality. – Irving Howe

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Imagination

Its what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places its never been before. Theres nothing better than that. – Robin Wright Penn

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Imagination

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We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately. – Benjamin Franklin

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I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, Its easier to change directions while youre still moving. If you stop, its harder to get started again. I still dont think I made the wrong decision, but he was right. – Debra Winger

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. – Allen Ginsberg

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