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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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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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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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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. – Edward Hopper

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Man is an imagining being. – Gaston Bachelard

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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. – Carl Jung

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Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times its just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character. – Joaquin Phoenix

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I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. – Cornelia Funke

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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blades no easier to make than an oak. – James Russell Lowell

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As prosperity is promoted, thinking is demoted. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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