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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Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and natures phenomena before it can again become great. – Edward Hopper

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Nature
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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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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. – Edward Hopper

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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. – Henri Bergson

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Imagination

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit ones imagination. – Ellen Key

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Imagination

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux

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Imagination

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. – Albert Einstein

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Imagination

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend. – Arabic Proverb

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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. – Bertrand Russell

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When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion. – Mason Cooley

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I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon. – Mitt Romney

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